remplir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French remplir, from Old French remplir, from re- + emplir, which is itself from Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin implēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.pliʁ/

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Verb

remplir

1. to fill, to fill up (make full)

   Remplir la piscine avec de l’eau.

   To fill the pool with water.

2. to fill in

   Veuillez remplir les blancs.

   Please fill in the blanks.

3. to fulfil

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 remplir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remplir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remplissant /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rempli /ʁɑ̃.pli/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remplis /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplis /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplit /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplissons /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/	remplissez /ʁɑ̃.pli.se/	remplissent /ʁɑ̃.plis/
	imperfect	remplissais /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	remplissais /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	remplissait /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɛ/	remplissions /ʁɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	remplissiez /ʁɑ̃.pli.sje/	remplissaient /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɛ/
	past historic2	remplis /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplis /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplit /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplîmes /ʁɑ̃.plim/	remplîtes /ʁɑ̃.plit/	remplirent /ʁɑ̃.pliʁ/
	future	remplirai /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁe/	rempliras /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁa/	remplira /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁa/	remplirons /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/	remplirez /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁe/	rempliront /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remplirais /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	remplirais /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	remplirait /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁɛ/	remplirions /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁjɔ̃/	rempliriez /ʁɑ̃.pli.ʁje/	rempliraient /ʁɑ̃.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	remplisse /ʁɑ̃.plis/	remplisses /ʁɑ̃.plis/	remplisse /ʁɑ̃.plis/	remplissions /ʁɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	remplissiez /ʁɑ̃.pli.sje/	remplissent /ʁɑ̃.plis/
	imperfect2	remplisse /ʁɑ̃.plis/	remplisses /ʁɑ̃.plis/	remplît /ʁɑ̃.pli/	remplissions /ʁɑ̃.pli.sjɔ̃/	remplissiez /ʁɑ̃.pli.sje/	remplissent /ʁɑ̃.plis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remplis /ʁɑ̃.pli/	—	remplissons /ʁɑ̃.pli.sɔ̃/	remplissez /ʁɑ̃.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).

Further reading

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