emboîter
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See also: emboiter
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]emboîter
- to embed, encapsulate
- Les poupées russes sont emboitées les unes dans les autres.
- Matryoshka dolls are embedded in one another.
- to fit, fit together
- to box, to place in a box
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of emboîter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | emboîter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | emboîtant /ɑ̃.bwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | emboîté /ɑ̃.bwa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | emboîte /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîtes /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîte /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîtons /ɑ̃.bwa.tɔ̃/ |
emboîtez /ɑ̃.bwa.te/ |
emboîtent /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
| imperfect | emboîtais /ɑ̃.bwa.tɛ/ |
emboîtais /ɑ̃.bwa.tɛ/ |
emboîtait /ɑ̃.bwa.tɛ/ |
emboîtions /ɑ̃.bwa.tjɔ̃/ |
emboîtiez /ɑ̃.bwa.tje/ |
emboîtaient /ɑ̃.bwa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | emboîtai /ɑ̃.bwa.te/ |
emboîtas /ɑ̃.bwa.ta/ |
emboîta /ɑ̃.bwa.ta/ |
emboîtâmes /ɑ̃.bwa.tam/ |
emboîtâtes /ɑ̃.bwa.tat/ |
emboîtèrent /ɑ̃.bwa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | emboîterai /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁe/ |
emboîteras /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁa/ |
emboîtera /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁa/ |
emboîterons /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
emboîterez /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁe/ |
emboîteront /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | emboîterais /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɛ/ |
emboîterais /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɛ/ |
emboîterait /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɛ/ |
emboîterions /ɑ̃.bwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emboîteriez /ɑ̃.bwa.tə.ʁje/ |
emboîteraient /ɑ̃.bwa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | emboîte /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîtes /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîte /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
emboîtions /ɑ̃.bwa.tjɔ̃/ |
emboîtiez /ɑ̃.bwa.tje/ |
emboîtent /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
| imperfect2 | emboîtasse /ɑ̃.bwa.tas/ |
emboîtasses /ɑ̃.bwa.tas/ |
emboîtât /ɑ̃.bwa.ta/ |
emboîtassions /ɑ̃.bwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
emboîtassiez /ɑ̃.bwa.ta.sje/ |
emboîtassent /ɑ̃.bwa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | emboîte /ɑ̃.bwat/ |
— | emboîtons /ɑ̃.bwa.tɔ̃/ |
emboîtez /ɑ̃.bwa.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). | |||||||
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “emboîter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
