empiéger

See also: empieger

French

Etymology

First recorded circa 1226 as empegier, Latin impedicō, impedicāre. Doublet of empêcher. Surface analysis: en- +‎ piège +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/

Verb

empiéger

1. (rare) to trap

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent 'e' is inserted before 'a' and 'o' endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è').

Conjugation of empiéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empiéger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empiégeant /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empiégé /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empièges /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empiégeons /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɔ̃/	empiégez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/	empiègent /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/
	imperfect	empiégeais /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/	empiégeais /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/	empiégeait /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/	empiégions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒjɔ̃/	empiégiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒje/	empiégeaient /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	empiégeai /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/	empiégeas /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/	empiégea /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/	empiégeâmes /ɑ̃.pje.ʒam/	empiégeâtes /ɑ̃.pje.ʒat/	empiégèrent /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɛʁ/
	future	empiégerai or empiègerai /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁe/	empiégeras or empiègeras /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁa/	empiégera or empiègera /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁa/	empiégerons or empiègerons /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/	empiégerez or empiègerez /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁe/	empiégeront or empiègeront /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empiégerais or empiègerais /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/	empiégerais or empiègerais /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/	empiégerait or empiègerait /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/	empiégerions or empiègerions /ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	empiégeriez or empiègeriez /ɑ̃.pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.pje.ʒə.ʁje/	empiégeraient or empiègeraient /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empièges /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	empiégions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒjɔ̃/	empiégiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒje/	empiègent /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/
	imperfect2	empiégeasse /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/	empiégeasses /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/	empiégeât /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa/	empiégeassions /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	empiégeassiez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒa.sje/	empiégeassent /ɑ̃.pje.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empiège /ɑ̃.pjɛʒ/	—	empiégeons /ɑ̃.pje.ʒɔ̃/	empiégez /ɑ̃.pje.ʒe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “empiéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.