empaumer

French

Etymology

From paume.

Pronunciation

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Verb

empaumer

1. to grasp

Conjugation

Conjugation of empaumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empaumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empaumant /ɑ̃.po.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empaumé /ɑ̃.po.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empaume /ɑ̃.pom/	empaumes /ɑ̃.pom/	empaume /ɑ̃.pom/	empaumons /ɑ̃.po.mɔ̃/	empaumez /ɑ̃.po.me/	empaument /ɑ̃.pom/
	imperfect	empaumais /ɑ̃.po.mɛ/	empaumais /ɑ̃.po.mɛ/	empaumait /ɑ̃.po.mɛ/	empaumions /ɑ̃.po.mjɔ̃/	empaumiez /ɑ̃.po.mje/	empaumaient /ɑ̃.po.mɛ/
	past historic2	empaumai /ɑ̃.po.me/	empaumas /ɑ̃.po.ma/	empauma /ɑ̃.po.ma/	empaumâmes /ɑ̃.po.mam/	empaumâtes /ɑ̃.po.mat/	empaumèrent /ɑ̃.po.mɛʁ/
	future	empaumerai /ɑ̃.pom.ʁe/	empaumeras /ɑ̃.pom.ʁa/	empaumera /ɑ̃.pom.ʁa/	empaumerons /ɑ̃.pom.ʁɔ̃/	empaumerez /ɑ̃.pom.ʁe/	empaumeront /ɑ̃.pom.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empaumerais /ɑ̃.pom.ʁɛ/	empaumerais /ɑ̃.pom.ʁɛ/	empaumerait /ɑ̃.pom.ʁɛ/	empaumerions /ɑ̃.po.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	empaumeriez /ɑ̃.po.mə.ʁje/	empaumeraient /ɑ̃.pom.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	empaume /ɑ̃.pom/	empaumes /ɑ̃.pom/	empaume /ɑ̃.pom/	empaumions /ɑ̃.po.mjɔ̃/	empaumiez /ɑ̃.po.mje/	empaument /ɑ̃.pom/
	imperfect2	empaumasse /ɑ̃.po.mas/	empaumasses /ɑ̃.po.mas/	empaumât /ɑ̃.po.ma/	empaumassions /ɑ̃.po.ma.sjɔ̃/	empaumassiez /ɑ̃.po.ma.sje/	empaumassent /ɑ̃.po.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empaume /ɑ̃.pom/	—	empaumons /ɑ̃.po.mɔ̃/	empaumez /ɑ̃.po.me/	—
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

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