empuantir

French

Etymology

From puant, present participle of puer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (v) /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tiʁ/

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Verb

empuantir

1. (transitive) to stink out

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 empuantir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empuantir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empuantissant /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empuanti /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empuantis /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantis /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantit /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantissons /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	empuantissez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.se/	empuantissent /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect	empuantissais /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	empuantissais /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	empuantissait /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɛ/	empuantissions /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	empuantissiez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sje/	empuantissaient /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	empuantis /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantis /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantit /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantîmes /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tim/	empuantîtes /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tit/	empuantirent /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tiʁ/
	future	empuantirai /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	empuantiras /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	empuantira /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁa/	empuantirons /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/	empuantirez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁe/	empuantiront /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empuantirais /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	empuantirais /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	empuantirait /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/	empuantirions /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	empuantiriez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.ʁje/	empuantiraient /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.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	empuantisse /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/	empuantisses /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/	empuantisse /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/	empuantissions /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	empuantissiez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sje/	empuantissent /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/
	imperfect2	empuantisse /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/	empuantisses /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/	empuantît /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	empuantissions /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/	empuantissiez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sje/	empuantissent /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empuantis /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti/	—	empuantissons /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/	empuantissez /ɑ̃.pɥɑ̃.ti.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).

Further reading

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