emmancher

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ manche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

emmancher

1. (transitive) to fit, to attach (especially to a shaft or a handle)
2. (transitive) to help someone into [clothes]
3. (transitive) to get going, start up, set about, commence
4. (transitive, vulgar) to sodomise, buttfuck

Conjugation

Conjugation of emmancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emmancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emmanchant /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		emmanché /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emmanche /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanches /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanche /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanchons /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	emmanchez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃe/	emmanchent /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	emmanchais /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	emmanchais /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	emmanchait /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/	emmanchions /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	emmanchiez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃje/	emmanchaient /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	emmanchai /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃe/	emmanchas /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃa/	emmancha /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃa/	emmanchâmes /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃam/	emmanchâtes /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃat/	emmanchèrent /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	emmancherai /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	emmancheras /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	emmanchera /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	emmancherons /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	emmancherez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	emmancheront /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emmancherais /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	emmancherais /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	emmancherait /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	emmancherions /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	emmancheriez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	emmancheraient /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ.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	emmanche /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanches /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanche /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	emmanchions /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	emmanchiez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃje/	emmanchent /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	emmanchasse /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃas/	emmanchasses /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃas/	emmanchât /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃa/	emmanchassions /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	emmanchassiez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	emmanchassent /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emmanche /ɑ̃.mɑ̃ʃ/	—	emmanchons /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	emmanchez /ɑ̃.mɑ̃.ʃe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• emmanchement
• emmanché

Further reading

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