emplir

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• inchir (< Spanish henchir)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin implēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emˈpli(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: em‧plir
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

Verb

emplir

1. fill

References

• “henchir”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French emplir, from Old French emplir, from Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin implēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pliʁ/

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Verb

emplir

1. (transitive, archaic) to fill
2. (reflexive, figuratively) to fill

   Mon cœur s'emplit d'amertume. ― My heart is filled with bitterness.

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of emplir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emplir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emplissant /ɑ̃.pli.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empli /ɑ̃.pli/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emplis /ɑ̃.pli/	emplis /ɑ̃.pli/	emplit /ɑ̃.pli/	emplissons /ɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/	emplissez /ɑ̃.pli.se/	emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/
	imperfect	emplissais /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	emplissais /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	emplissait /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/	emplissaient /ɑ̃.pli.sɛ/
	past historic2	emplis /ɑ̃.pli/	emplis /ɑ̃.pli/	emplit /ɑ̃.pli/	emplîmes /ɑ̃.plim/	emplîtes /ɑ̃.plit/	emplirent /ɑ̃.pliʁ/
	future	emplirai /ɑ̃.pli.ʁe/	empliras /ɑ̃.pli.ʁa/	emplira /ɑ̃.pli.ʁa/	emplirons /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/	emplirez /ɑ̃.pli.ʁe/	empliront /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emplirais /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	emplirais /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	emplirait /ɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	emplirions /ɑ̃.pli.ʁjɔ̃/	empliriez /ɑ̃.pli.ʁje/	empliraient /ɑ̃.pli.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	emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/	emplisses /ɑ̃.plis/	emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/	emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/	emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/
	imperfect2	emplisse /ɑ̃.plis/	emplisses /ɑ̃.plis/	emplît /ɑ̃.pli/	emplissions /ɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	emplissiez /ɑ̃.pli.sje/	emplissent /ɑ̃.plis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emplis /ɑ̃.pli/	—	emplissons /ɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/	emplissez /ɑ̃.pli.se/	—
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).

Related terms

• remplir

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rempli

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French emplir.

Verb

emplir

1. (transitive) to fill

Descendants

• French: emplir