empailler

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ paille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pa.je/

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• Rhymes: -e

Verb

empailler

1. (transitive) to stuff (a dead animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of empailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empaillant /ɑ̃.pa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empaillé /ɑ̃.pa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empaille /ɑ̃.paj/	empailles /ɑ̃.paj/	empaille /ɑ̃.paj/	empaillons /ɑ̃.pa.jɔ̃/	empaillez /ɑ̃.pa.je/	empaillent /ɑ̃.paj/
	imperfect	empaillais /ɑ̃.pa.jɛ/	empaillais /ɑ̃.pa.jɛ/	empaillait /ɑ̃.pa.jɛ/	empaillions /ɑ̃.paj.jɔ̃/	empailliez /ɑ̃.paj.je/	empaillaient /ɑ̃.pa.jɛ/
	past historic2	empaillai /ɑ̃.pa.je/	empaillas /ɑ̃.pa.ja/	empailla /ɑ̃.pa.ja/	empaillâmes /ɑ̃.pa.jam/	empaillâtes /ɑ̃.pa.jat/	empaillèrent /ɑ̃.pa.jɛʁ/
	future	empaillerai /ɑ̃.paj.ʁe/	empailleras /ɑ̃.paj.ʁa/	empaillera /ɑ̃.paj.ʁa/	empaillerons /ɑ̃.paj.ʁɔ̃/	empaillerez /ɑ̃.paj.ʁe/	empailleront /ɑ̃.paj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empaillerais /ɑ̃.paj.ʁɛ/	empaillerais /ɑ̃.paj.ʁɛ/	empaillerait /ɑ̃.paj.ʁɛ/	empaillerions /ɑ̃.pa.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	empailleriez /ɑ̃.pa.jə.ʁje/	empailleraient /ɑ̃.paj.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	empaille /ɑ̃.paj/	empailles /ɑ̃.paj/	empaille /ɑ̃.paj/	empaillions /ɑ̃.paj.jɔ̃/	empailliez /ɑ̃.paj.je/	empaillent /ɑ̃.paj/
	imperfect2	empaillasse /ɑ̃.pa.jas/	empaillasses /ɑ̃.pa.jas/	empaillât /ɑ̃.pa.ja/	empaillassions /ɑ̃.pa.ja.sjɔ̃/	empaillassiez /ɑ̃.pa.ja.sje/	empaillassent /ɑ̃.pa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empaille /ɑ̃.paj/	—	empaillons /ɑ̃.pa.jɔ̃/	empaillez /ɑ̃.pa.je/	—
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

• empaillage
• empaillement

Further reading

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