Inherited from Middle French emboutir, enbotir. By surface analysis, en- + bout + -ir.
emboutir
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
infinitive | simple | emboutir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | emboutissant /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | embouti /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutit /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutissons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
emboutissez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.se/ |
emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
imperfect | emboutissais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
emboutissais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
emboutissait /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ |
emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ |
emboutissaient /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutit /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutîmes /ɑ̃.bu.tim/ |
emboutîtes /ɑ̃.bu.tit/ |
emboutirent /ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ/ | |
future | emboutirai /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁe/ |
emboutiras /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁa/ |
emboutira /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁa/ |
emboutirons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
emboutirez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁe/ |
emboutiront /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | emboutirais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
emboutirais /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
emboutirait /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁɛ/ |
emboutirions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emboutiriez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.ʁje/ |
emboutiraient /ɑ̃.bu.ti.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 | emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
emboutisses /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ |
emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
imperfect2 | emboutisse /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
emboutisses /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ |
emboutît /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
emboutissions /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
emboutissiez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sje/ |
emboutissent /ɑ̃.bu.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | emboutis /ɑ̃.bu.ti/ |
— | emboutissons /ɑ̃.bu.ti.sɔ̃/ |
emboutissez /ɑ̃.bu.ti.se/ |
— | |
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |