empoigner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
empoigner
- to grab; grasp (to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something))
- 1961, Charles Aznavour (lyrics and music), “Je m’voyais déjà”, in Je m'voyais déjà:
- A dix-huit ans j’ai quitté ma province / Bien décidé à empoigner la vie / Le cœur léger et le bagage mince / J’étais certain de conquérir Paris
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of empoigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | empoigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | empoignant /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | empoigné /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignes /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignons /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
empoignez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
empoignent /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
| imperfect | empoignais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignait /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ |
empoignions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
empoigniez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲje/ |
empoignaient /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | empoignai /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
empoignas /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoigna /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoignâmes /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲam/ |
empoignâtes /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲat/ |
empoignèrent /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | empoignerai /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁe/ |
empoigneras /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁa/ |
empoignera /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁa/ |
empoignerons /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
empoignerez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁe/ |
empoigneront /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | empoignerais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerais /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerait /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
empoignerions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empoigneriez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.ʁje/ |
empoigneraient /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲə.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 | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignes /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
empoignions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
empoigniez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲje/ |
empoignent /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | empoignasse /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ |
empoignasses /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ |
empoignât /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa/ |
empoignassions /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
empoignassiez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲa.sje/ |
empoignassent /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | empoigne /ɑ̃.pwaɲ/ |
— | empoignons /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
empoignez /ɑ̃.pwa.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “empoigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.