émietter

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ miette +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

émietter

1. to crumble (make into crumbs)
2. (figuratively) to eat away (at)
3. (reflexive) to crumble; to whittle away

Conjugation

Conjugation of émietter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émietter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émiettant /e.mjɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.mje.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émietté /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émiette /e.mjɛt/	émiettes /e.mjɛt/	émiette /e.mjɛt/	émiettons /e.mjɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tɔ̃/	émiettez /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/	émiettent /e.mjɛt/
	imperfect	émiettais /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/	émiettais /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/	émiettait /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/	émiettions /e.mjɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tjɔ̃/	émiettiez /e.mjɛ.tje/ or /e.mje.tje/	émiettaient /e.mjɛ.tɛ/ or /e.mje.tɛ/
	past historic2	émiettai /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.te/	émiettas /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/	émietta /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/	émiettâmes /e.mjɛ.tam/ or /e.mje.tam/	émiettâtes /e.mjɛ.tat/ or /e.mje.tat/	émiettèrent /e.mjɛ.tɛʁ/ or /e.mje.tɛʁ/
	future	émietterai /e.mjɛ.tʁe/ or /e.mje.tʁe/	émietteras /e.mjɛ.tʁa/ or /e.mje.tʁa/	émiettera /e.mjɛ.tʁa/ or /e.mje.tʁa/	émietterons /e.mjɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tʁɔ̃/	émietterez /e.mjɛ.tʁe/ or /e.mje.tʁe/	émietteront /e.mjɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émietterais /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/	émietterais /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/	émietterait /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.tʁɛ/	émietterions /e.mjɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	émietteriez /e.mjɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /e.mje.tə.ʁje/	émietteraient /e.mjɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.mje.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	émiette /e.mjɛt/	émiettes /e.mjɛt/	émiette /e.mjɛt/	émiettions /e.mjɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tjɔ̃/	émiettiez /e.mjɛ.tje/ or /e.mje.tje/	émiettent /e.mjɛt/
	imperfect2	émiettasse /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/	émiettasses /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/	émiettât /e.mjɛ.ta/ or /e.mje.ta/	émiettassions /e.mjɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /e.mje.ta.sjɔ̃/	émiettassiez /e.mjɛ.ta.sje/ or /e.mje.ta.sje/	émiettassent /e.mjɛ.tas/ or /e.mje.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émiette /e.mjɛt/	—	émiettons /e.mjɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.mje.tɔ̃/	émiettez /e.mjɛ.te/ or /e.mje.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).

Further reading

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