empoisonner

See also: empoissonner

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ poison +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/

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Verb

empoisonner

1. (transitive) to poison, to kill by poisoning

Conjugation

Conjugation of empoisonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empoisonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empoisonnant /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empoisonné /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empoisonne /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonnes /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonne /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonnons /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/	empoisonnez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/	empoisonnent /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/
	imperfect	empoisonnais /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɛ/	empoisonnais /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɛ/	empoisonnait /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɛ/	empoisonnions /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/	empoisonniez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nje/	empoisonnaient /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	empoisonnai /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/	empoisonnas /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.na/	empoisonna /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.na/	empoisonnâmes /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nam/	empoisonnâtes /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nat/	empoisonnèrent /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	empoisonnerai /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁe/	empoisonneras /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁa/	empoisonnera /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁa/	empoisonnerons /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/	empoisonnerez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁe/	empoisonneront /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empoisonnerais /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	empoisonnerais /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	empoisonnerait /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.ʁɛ/	empoisonnerions /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	empoisonneriez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nə.ʁje/	empoisonneraient /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn.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	empoisonne /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonnes /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonne /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	empoisonnions /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.njɔ̃/	empoisonniez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nje/	empoisonnent /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/
	imperfect2	empoisonnasse /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nas/	empoisonnasses /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nas/	empoisonnât /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.na/	empoisonnassions /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	empoisonnassiez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.na.sje/	empoisonnassent /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empoisonne /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔn/	—	empoisonnons /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.nɔ̃/	empoisonnez /ɑ̃.pwa.zɔ.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• cadeau empoisonné

Further reading

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