empourprer

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ pourpre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁe/

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Verb

empourprer

1. to make purple, to color purple, empurple

Conjugation

Conjugation of empourprer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empourprer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empourprant /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empourpré /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empourpre /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourpres /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourpre /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourprons /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɔ̃/	empourprez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁe/	empourprent /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/
	imperfect	empourprais /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɛ/	empourprais /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɛ/	empourprait /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɛ/	empourprions /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁi.jɔ̃/	empourpriez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁi.je/	empourpraient /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɛ/
	past historic2	empourprai /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁe/	empourpras /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁa/	empourpra /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁa/	empourprâmes /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁam/	empourprâtes /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁat/	empourprèrent /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɛʁ/
	future	empourprerai /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁe/	empourpreras /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁa/	empourprera /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁa/	empourprerons /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁɔ̃/	empourprerez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁe/	empourpreront /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empourprerais /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁɛ/	empourprerais /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁɛ/	empourprerait /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁɛ/	empourprerions /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	empourpreriez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.ʁje/	empourpreraient /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁə.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	empourpre /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourpres /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourpre /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	empourprions /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁi.jɔ̃/	empourpriez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁi.je/	empourprent /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/
	imperfect2	empourprasse /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁas/	empourprasses /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁas/	empourprât /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁa/	empourprassions /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁa.sjɔ̃/	empourprassiez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁa.sje/	empourprassent /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empourpre /ɑ̃.puʁpʁ/	—	empourprons /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁɔ̃/	empourprez /ɑ̃.puʁ.pʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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