emmerder
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]emmerder
- (transitive, mildly vulgar) to bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of" someone
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fr:embêter
- Il m’emmerde avec ses gamineries ! ― He's a pain with his childish nonsense!
- 2022 January 4, Emmanuel Macron, quotee, “Covid-19 : Emmanuel Macron assume sa stratégie d’« emmerder » les non-vaccinés”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Moi, je ne suis pas pour emmerder les Français. Je peste toute la journée contre l’administration quand elle les bloque. Eh bien là, les non-vaccinés, j’ai très envie de les emmerder.
- I'm not for bothering the French. I rail all day against the administration when it blocks them. Well, the non-vaccinated, I really desire to bother them.
- (transitive, pronominal, vulgar) to bother with
- (transitive, pronominal, vulgar) to be bored
- Synonym: se faire chier
- Ah, ce qu’on s’emmerde ici ! ― Man, it's so boring here!
- (transitive, vulgar) used to tell someone to bug off
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of emmerder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | emmerder | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | emmerdant /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | emmerdé /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerdes /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerdons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɔ̃/ |
emmerdez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/ |
emmerdent /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
imperfect | emmerdais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/ |
emmerdais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/ |
emmerdait /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/ |
emmerdions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.djɔ̃/ |
emmerdiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dje/ |
emmerdaient /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | emmerdai /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/ |
emmerdas /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/ |
emmerda /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/ |
emmerdâmes /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dam/ |
emmerdâtes /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dat/ |
emmerdèrent /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
future | emmerderai /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁe/ |
emmerderas /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁa/ |
emmerdera /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁa/ |
emmerderons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
emmerderez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁe/ |
emmerderont /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | emmerderais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
emmerderais /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
emmerderait /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
emmerderions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
emmerderiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.ʁje/ |
emmerderaient /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.də.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 | emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerdes /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
emmerdions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.djɔ̃/ |
emmerdiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dje/ |
emmerdent /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
imperfect2 | emmerdasse /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/ |
emmerdasses /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/ |
emmerdât /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da/ |
emmerdassions /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
emmerdassiez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.da.sje/ |
emmerdassent /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.das/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | emmerde /ɑ̃.mɛʁd/ |
— | emmerdons /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.dɔ̃/ |
emmerdez /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Synonyms
[edit]- (to bug, bother, irritate ("the shit out of") someone): agacer (proper), casser les couilles (vulgar), casser les pieds (familiar), énerver (proper), emmachiner (minced oath), ennuyer (proper), enquiquiner (minced oath), faire chier (vulgar), importuner (proper)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (to bother with): se taper, se farcir, se coltiner
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “emmerder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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