empeser
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French empoise (“weight”), from Latin impēnsa.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
empeser
- to starch
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il empèse and the third-person singular future indicative il empèsera.
Conjugation of empeser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | empeser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | empesant /ɑ̃p.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | empesé /ɑ̃p.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ |
empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
| imperfect | empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesait /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ |
empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ |
empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ |
empesaient /ɑ̃p.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | empesai /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
empesas /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesa /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesâmes /ɑ̃p.zam/ |
empesâtes /ɑ̃p.zat/ |
empesèrent /ɑ̃p.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | empèserai /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ |
empèseras /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ |
empèsera /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/ |
empèserons /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ |
empèserez /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/ |
empèseront /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserait /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/ |
empèserions /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empèseriez /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁje/ |
empèseraient /ɑ̃.pɛz.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 | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/ |
empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/ |
empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
| imperfect2 | empesasse /ɑ̃p.zas/ |
empesasses /ɑ̃p.zas/ |
empesât /ɑ̃p.za/ |
empesassions /ɑ̃p.za.sjɔ̃/ |
empesassiez /ɑ̃p.za.sje/ |
empesassent /ɑ̃p.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/ |
— | empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/ |
empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “empeser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.