emballer
French
Etymology
From en- + balle (“bundle, packet”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ba.le/
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Verb
emballer
- (transitive) to pack up; to wrap up; to parcel
- (colloquial) to thrill, to turn on
- Cela ne m'emballe pas.
- I'm not keen on it.
- (reflexive) to race
- (reflexive, for a horse) to bolt
- (reflexive, colloquial) to get carried away
- February 6 2009, Le Point, Nicolas Sarkozy : "Je maintiens ma confiance" en Bernard Kouchner
- Un monsieur fait un livre, il ne m'appartient pas de juger de la qualité de ce livre. Dans ce livre, ce monsieur dit que Bernard Kouchner n'a rien fait d'illégal, et le petit système médiatique s'emballe et accuse monsieur Kouchner.
- February 6 2009, Le Point, Nicolas Sarkozy : "Je maintiens ma confiance" en Bernard Kouchner
- (reflexive, colloquial) to get ahead of oneself, to get one's hopes up
- (transitive, colloquial) to make out with someone
Conjugation
Conjugation of emballer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | emballer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | emballant /ɑ̃.ba.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | emballé /ɑ̃.ba.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballes /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballons /ɑ̃.ba.lɔ̃/ |
emballez /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
emballent /ɑ̃.bal/ |
| imperfect | emballais /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballais /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballait /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ |
emballions /ɑ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/ |
emballiez /ɑ̃.ba.lje/ |
emballaient /ɑ̃.ba.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | emballai /ɑ̃.ba.le/ |
emballas /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballa /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballâmes /ɑ̃.ba.lam/ |
emballâtes /ɑ̃.ba.lat/ |
emballèrent /ɑ̃.ba.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | emballerai /ɑ̃.bal.ʁe/ |
emballeras /ɑ̃.bal.ʁa/ |
emballera /ɑ̃.bal.ʁa/ |
emballerons /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/ |
emballerez /ɑ̃.bal.ʁe/ |
emballeront /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | emballerais /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerais /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerait /ɑ̃.bal.ʁɛ/ |
emballerions /ɑ̃.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emballeriez /ɑ̃.ba.lə.ʁje/ |
emballeraient /ɑ̃.bal.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 | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballes /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
emballions /ɑ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/ |
emballiez /ɑ̃.ba.lje/ |
emballent /ɑ̃.bal/ |
| imperfect2 | emballasse /ɑ̃.ba.las/ |
emballasses /ɑ̃.ba.las/ |
emballât /ɑ̃.ba.la/ |
emballassions /ɑ̃.ba.la.sjɔ̃/ |
emballassiez /ɑ̃.ba.la.sje/ |
emballassent /ɑ̃.ba.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | emballe /ɑ̃.bal/ |
— | emballons /ɑ̃.ba.lɔ̃/ |
emballez /ɑ̃.ba.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “emballer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.