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empirer
empirer
French
Verb
empirer
- (transitive, intransitive) to worsen
- 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, ISBN 2-89021-276-9, page 83:
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"Il ne faut pas empirer les choses"
- Let's not make things worse.
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"Il ne faut pas empirer les choses"
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Conjugation
Conjugation of empirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | empirer | avoir empiré | |||||
| gerund | en empirant | en ayant empiré | |||||
| present participle | empirant /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | empiré /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empire /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empires /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empire /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empirons /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
empirez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/ |
empirent /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
| imperfect | empirais /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɛ/ |
empirais /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɛ/ |
empirait /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɛ/ |
empirions /ɑ̃.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empiriez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁje/ |
empiraient /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | empirai /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/ |
empiras /ɑ̃.pi.ʁa/ |
empira /ɑ̃.pi.ʁa/ |
empirâmes /ɑ̃.pi.ʁam/ |
empirâtes /ɑ̃.pi.ʁat/ |
empirèrent /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | empirerai /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
empireras /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
empirera /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
empirerons /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
empirerez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
empireront /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | empirerais /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
empirerais /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
empirerait /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
empirerions /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empireriez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁje/ |
empireraient /ɑ̃.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | empire /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empires /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empire /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
empirions /ɑ̃.pi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
empiriez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁje/ |
empirent /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
empirasse /ɑ̃.pi.ʁas/ |
empirasses /ɑ̃.pi.ʁas/ |
empirât /ɑ̃.pi.ʁa/ |
empirassions /ɑ̃.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
empirassiez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁa.sje/ |
empirassent /ɑ̃.pi.ʁas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | empire /ɑ̃.piʁ/ |
— | empirons /ɑ̃.pi.ʁɔ̃/ |
empirez /ɑ̃.pi.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
Attested in Old French as empirier, equivalent to en- + pire (“worse”) + -er.
Verb
empirer
- (transitive, intransitive) to worsen
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of empirer
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | empirer | avoir empiré | |||||
| gerund | en empirant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | empirant | ||||||
| past participle | empiré | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | empire | empires | empire | empirons | empirez | empirent |
| imperfect | empirois, empiroys | empirois, empiroys | empiroit, empiroyt | empirions, empiryons | empiriez, empiryez | empiroient, empiroyent | |
| past historic | empira | empiras | empira | empirasmes | empirastes | empirerent | |
| future | empirerai, empireray | empireras | empirera | empirerons | empirerez | empireront | |
| conditional | empirerois, empireroys | empirerois, empireroys | empireroit, empireroyt | empirerions, empireryons | empireriez, empireryez | empireroient, empireroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | empire | empires | empire | empirons | empirez | empirent |
| imperfect | empirasse | empirasses | empirast | empirassions | empirassiez | empirassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | empire | — | empirons | empirez | — | ||