emboutir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French emboutir, enbotir. By surface analysis, en- +‎ bout +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bu.tiʁ/

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Verb

emboutir

1. to emboss
2. to crash into

Conjugation

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-.

Conjugation of emboutir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emboutir
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Related terms

• emboutissage
• emboutisseur

Descendants

• → Italian: imbutire

Further reading

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