empreindre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin imprimere, present active infinitive of imprimō, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *impremere. Doublet of imprimer, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃dʁ/

Verb

empreindre

1. (transitive) to imprint
2. (transitive) to influence
3. (transitive) to imbue (with)
4. (reflexive) to become imbued (with)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of empreindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empreindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empreignant /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empreint /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empreins /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃/	empreins /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃/	empreint /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃/	empreignons /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/	empreignez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲe/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲe/	empreignent /ɑ̃.pʁɛɲ/
	imperfect	empreignais /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/	empreignais /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/	empreignait /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/	empreignions /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/	empreigniez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲje/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲje/	empreignaient /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	empreignis /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi/	empreignis /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi/	empreignit /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi/	empreignîmes /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲim/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲim/	empreignîtes /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲit/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲit/	empreignirent /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲiʁ/
	future	empreindrai /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁe/	empreindras /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁa/	empreindra /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁa/	empreindrons /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	empreindrez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁe/	empreindront /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empreindrais /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	empreindrais /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	empreindrait /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	empreindrions /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	empreindriez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁi.je/	empreindraient /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	empreigne /ɑ̃.pʁɛɲ/	empreignes /ɑ̃.pʁɛɲ/	empreigne /ɑ̃.pʁɛɲ/	empreignions /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/	empreigniez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲje/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲje/	empreignent /ɑ̃.pʁɛɲ/
	imperfect2	empreignisse /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲis/	empreignisses /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲis/	empreignît /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi/	empreignissions /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	empreignissiez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲi.sje/	empreignissent /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empreins /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃/	—	empreignons /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/	empreignez /ɑ̃.pʁɛ.ɲe/ or /ɑ̃.pʁe.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: 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

• empreint
• empreinte

Further reading

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