émaner

See also: emaner

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēmānāre, itself from ex- +‎ mānō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ma.ne/

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Verb

émaner

1. to emanate, to come (from)

   Le rapport émane du groupe de travail mis en place il y a deux ans à Bali sous l’égide de la Convention des Nations Unies.

   The report comes from the work group put in place two years ago in Bali under the endorsement of the United Nations Convention.

2. to radiate

   Les phéromones émanent de glandes endocrines.

   Pheromones emanate from exocrine glands.

Conjugation

Conjugation of émaner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émaner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émanant /e.ma.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émané /e.ma.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émane /e.man/	émanes /e.man/	émane /e.man/	émanons /e.ma.nɔ̃/	émanez /e.ma.ne/	émanent /e.man/
	imperfect	émanais /e.ma.nɛ/	émanais /e.ma.nɛ/	émanait /e.ma.nɛ/	émanions /e.ma.njɔ̃/	émaniez /e.ma.nje/	émanaient /e.ma.nɛ/
	past historic2	émanai /e.ma.ne/	émanas /e.ma.na/	émana /e.ma.na/	émanâmes /e.ma.nam/	émanâtes /e.ma.nat/	émanèrent /e.ma.nɛʁ/
	future	émanerai /e.man.ʁe/	émaneras /e.man.ʁa/	émanera /e.man.ʁa/	émanerons /e.man.ʁɔ̃/	émanerez /e.man.ʁe/	émaneront /e.man.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émanerais /e.man.ʁɛ/	émanerais /e.man.ʁɛ/	émanerait /e.man.ʁɛ/	émanerions /e.ma.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	émaneriez /e.ma.nə.ʁje/	émaneraient /e.man.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	émane /e.man/	émanes /e.man/	émane /e.man/	émanions /e.ma.njɔ̃/	émaniez /e.ma.nje/	émanent /e.man/
	imperfect2	émanasse /e.ma.nas/	émanasses /e.ma.nas/	émanât /e.ma.na/	émanassions /e.ma.na.sjɔ̃/	émanassiez /e.ma.na.sje/	émanassent /e.ma.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émane /e.man/	—	émanons /e.ma.nɔ̃/	émanez /e.ma.ne/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• amener, mènera, ramené, ramène