empester
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
empester
- (transitive) to infect with a pest or with a contagious disease
- (transitive) to cause to stink, to cause to reek (of)
- (intransitive) to stink, reek of
Conjugation
Conjugation of empester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | empester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | empestant /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | empesté /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
| imperfect | empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ |
empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/ |
empestaient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | empestai /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
empestas /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empesta /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empestâmes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tam/ |
empestâtes /ɑ̃.pɛs.tat/ |
empestèrent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | empesterai /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
empesteras /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
empestera /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
empesterons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
empesterez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
empesteront /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterais /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterait /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
empesterions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empesteriez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
empesteraient /ɑ̃.pɛs.tə.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 | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestes /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
empestions /ɑ̃.pɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
empestiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.tje/ |
empestent /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | empestasse /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ |
empestasses /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ |
empestât /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta/ |
empestassions /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
empestassiez /ɑ̃.pɛs.ta.sje/ |
empestassent /ɑ̃.pɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | empeste /ɑ̃.pɛst/ |
— | empestons /ɑ̃.pɛs.tɔ̃/ |
empestez /ɑ̃.pɛs.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “empester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012