empreindre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin imprimere, possibly through a Vulgar Latin intermediate *impremere. Doublet of imprimer, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pʁɛ̃dʁ/
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Verb
empreindre
- (transitive) to imprint
- (transitive) to influence
- (transitive) to imbue (with)
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “empreindre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.