embobiner

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ bobine (“reel, spool”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/

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Verb

embobiner

1. (transitive) to wind up, reel up
2. (transitive) to wrap up

   une mouche embobinée dans une toile d’araignée

   a fly wrapped up in a spider's web

3. (colloquial, transitive) reel in

Conjugation

Conjugation of embobiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	embobiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	embobinant /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		embobiné /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/	embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/	embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/
	imperfect	embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/	embobinais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/	embobinait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/	embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/	embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/	embobinaient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛ/
	past historic2	embobinai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.ne/	embobinas /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/	embobina /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/	embobinâmes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nam/	embobinâtes /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nat/	embobinèrent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɛʁ/
	future	embobinerai /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/	embobineras /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/	embobinera /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁa/	embobinerons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/	embobinerez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁe/	embobineront /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/	embobinerais /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/	embobinerait /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.ʁɛ/	embobinerions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	embobineriez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nə.ʁje/	embobineraient /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin.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	embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobines /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	embobinions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.njɔ̃/	embobiniez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nje/	embobinent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/
	imperfect2	embobinasse /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/	embobinasses /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/	embobinât /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na/	embobinassions /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sjɔ̃/	embobinassiez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.na.sje/	embobinassent /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	embobine /ɑ̃.bɔ.bin/	—	embobinons /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.nɔ̃/	embobinez /ɑ̃.bɔ.bi.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).

Related terms

• bobinoir
• débobiner
• embobeliner
• rebobiner
• rembobiner

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rembobine, rembobiné