émasculer
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ēmasculāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.mas.ky.le/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: émasculai, émasculé, émasculée, émasculées, émasculés, émasculez
- Rhymes: -e
- Hyphenation: é‧mas‧cu‧ler
Verb
émasculer
- (transitive) to emasculate (to deprive a male of the organs of reproduction)
- (transitive, figuratively, literary) to emasculate (to make weak, to deprive one of one's strength, to strip of one's original strength)
Conjugation
Conjugation of émasculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | émasculer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | émasculant /e.mas.ky.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | émasculé /e.mas.ky.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | émascule /e.mas.kyl/ |
émascules /e.mas.kyl/ |
émascule /e.mas.kyl/ |
émasculons /e.mas.ky.lɔ̃/ |
émasculez /e.mas.ky.le/ |
émasculent /e.mas.kyl/ |
| imperfect | émasculais /e.mas.ky.lɛ/ |
émasculais /e.mas.ky.lɛ/ |
émasculait /e.mas.ky.lɛ/ |
émasculions /e.mas.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
émasculiez /e.mas.ky.lje/ |
émasculaient /e.mas.ky.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | émasculai /e.mas.ky.le/ |
émasculas /e.mas.ky.la/ |
émascula /e.mas.ky.la/ |
émasculâmes /e.mas.ky.lam/ |
émasculâtes /e.mas.ky.lat/ |
émasculèrent /e.mas.ky.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | émasculerai /e.mas.kyl.ʁe/ |
émasculeras /e.mas.kyl.ʁa/ |
émasculera /e.mas.kyl.ʁa/ |
émasculerons /e.mas.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
émasculerez /e.mas.kyl.ʁe/ |
émasculeront /e.mas.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | émasculerais /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
émasculerais /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
émasculerait /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
émasculerions /e.mas.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
émasculeriez /e.mas.ky.lə.ʁje/ |
émasculeraient /e.mas.kyl.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 | émascule /e.mas.kyl/ |
émascules /e.mas.kyl/ |
émascule /e.mas.kyl/ |
émasculions /e.mas.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
émasculiez /e.mas.ky.lje/ |
émasculent /e.mas.kyl/ |
| imperfect2 | émasculasse /e.mas.ky.las/ |
émasculasses /e.mas.ky.las/ |
émasculât /e.mas.ky.la/ |
émasculassions /e.mas.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
émasculassiez /e.mas.ky.la.sje/ |
émasculassent /e.mas.ky.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | émascule /e.mas.kyl/ |
— | émasculons /e.mas.ky.lɔ̃/ |
émasculez /e.mas.ky.le/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||