épreindre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French espraindre, from Old French espreindre, espraindre, from Latin exprimere. Doublet of exprimer, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.pʁɛ̃dʁ/

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Verb

épreindre

1. (archaic, rare) to squeeze out, draw out by pressing, to extract

   Synonyms: extraire, exprimer

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of épreindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	épreindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	épreignant /e.pʁɛ.ɲɑ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		épreint /e.pʁɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	épreins /e.pʁɛ̃/	épreins /e.pʁɛ̃/	épreint /e.pʁɛ̃/	épreignons /e.pʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/	épreignez /e.pʁɛ.ɲe/ or /e.pʁe.ɲe/	épreignent /e.pʁɛɲ/
	imperfect	épreignais /e.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɛ/	épreignais /e.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɛ/	épreignait /e.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɛ/	épreignions /e.pʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/	épreigniez /e.pʁɛ.ɲje/ or /e.pʁe.ɲje/	épreignaient /e.pʁɛ.ɲɛ/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	épreignis /e.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi/	épreignis /e.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi/	épreignit /e.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi/	épreignîmes /e.pʁɛ.ɲim/ or /e.pʁe.ɲim/	épreignîtes /e.pʁɛ.ɲit/ or /e.pʁe.ɲit/	épreignirent /e.pʁɛ.ɲiʁ/ or /e.pʁe.ɲiʁ/
	future	épreindrai /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁe/	épreindras /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁa/	épreindra /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁa/	épreindrons /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	épreindrez /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁe/	épreindront /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	épreindrais /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	épreindrais /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	épreindrait /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/	épreindrions /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	épreindriez /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁi.je/	épreindraient /e.pʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	épreigne /e.pʁɛɲ/	épreignes /e.pʁɛɲ/	épreigne /e.pʁɛɲ/	épreignions /e.pʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲjɔ̃/	épreigniez /e.pʁɛ.ɲje/ or /e.pʁe.ɲje/	épreignent /e.pʁɛɲ/
	imperfect2	épreignisse /e.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /e.pʁe.ɲis/	épreignisses /e.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /e.pʁe.ɲis/	épreignît /e.pʁɛ.ɲi/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi/	épreignissions /e.pʁɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	épreignissiez /e.pʁɛ.ɲi.sje/ or /e.pʁe.ɲi.sje/	épreignissent /e.pʁɛ.ɲis/ or /e.pʁe.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	épreins /e.pʁɛ̃/	—	épreignons /e.pʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ or /e.pʁe.ɲɔ̃/	épreignez /e.pʁɛ.ɲe/ or /e.pʁe.ɲe/	—
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

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