emporter

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ porter. Compare importer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/

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Verb

emporter

1. to take
2. to win
3. to take away, to blow away, to carry away

   Le vent emporte les fleurs. ― The wind blows away the flowers.

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que nos souvenirs nous protègent ? Sont-ils emportés par le temps ?

     Do our memories protect us? Are they carried away by time?

4. to take away

   des plats à emporter ― meals to take away

   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter I, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Il lui parut convenable et nécessaire, aussi bien pour l’éclat de sa gloire que pour le service de son pays, de se faire chevalier errant, de s’en aller par le monde, avec son cheval et ses armes, chercher les aventures, et de pratiquer tout ce qu’il avait lu que pratiquaient les chevaliers errants, redressant toutes sortes de torts, et s’exposant à tant de rencontres, à tant de périls, qu’il acquît, en les surmontant, une éternelle renommée. Il s’imaginait déjà, le pauvre rêveur, voir couronner la valeur de son bras au moins par l’empire de Trébizonde. Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.

     It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing himself to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. So taken away was he by such pleasant thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.

5. (reflexive, s'emporter) to get angry; to lose one's temper; to flare up

Conjugation

Conjugation of emporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emporter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emportant /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		emporté /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emporte /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emportes /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emporte /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emportons /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	emportez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/	emportent /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/
	imperfect	emportais /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	emportais /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	emportait /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/	emportions /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	emportiez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tje/	emportaient /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	emportai /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/	emportas /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	emporta /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	emportâmes /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tam/	emportâtes /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tat/	emportèrent /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	emporterai /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	emporteras /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	emportera /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	emporterons /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	emporterez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	emporteront /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emporterais /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	emporterais /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	emporterait /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	emporterions /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	emporteriez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/	emporteraient /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.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	emporte /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emportes /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emporte /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	emportions /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	emportiez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tje/	emportent /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/
	imperfect2	emportasse /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tas/	emportasses /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tas/	emportât /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta/	emportassions /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	emportassiez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta.sje/	emportassent /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emporte /ɑ̃.pɔʁt/	—	emportons /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	emportez /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.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: 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).

Derived terms

• l’emporter
• emporte-pièce

Related terms

• emport

See also

• apporter
• porter
• remporter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• remporte, remporté

Norman

Etymology

From Latin importō, importāre (“bring, carry or convey into”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō, portāre (“carry, bear; convey”).

Verb

emporter

1. (Jersey) to take away

Antonyms

• apporter (“to bring”)