empeser

French

Etymology

From Old French empoise (“weight”), from Latin impēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.pə.ze/

Verb

empeser

1. to starch

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il empèse and the third-person singular future indicative il empèsera.

Conjugation of empeser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empeser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empesant /ɑ̃p.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empesé /ɑ̃p.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/	empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/	empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/
	imperfect	empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/	empesais /ɑ̃p.zɛ/	empesait /ɑ̃p.zɛ/	empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/	empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/	empesaient /ɑ̃p.zɛ/
	past historic2	empesai /ɑ̃p.ze/	empesas /ɑ̃p.za/	empesa /ɑ̃p.za/	empesâmes /ɑ̃p.zam/	empesâtes /ɑ̃p.zat/	empesèrent /ɑ̃p.zɛʁ/
	future	empèserai /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/	empèseras /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/	empèsera /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁa/	empèserons /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/	empèserez /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁe/	empèseront /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/	empèserais /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/	empèserait /ɑ̃.pɛz.ʁɛ/	empèserions /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	empèseriez /ɑ̃.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.pe.zə.ʁje/	empèseraient /ɑ̃.pɛz.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	empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empèses /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/	empesions /ɑ̃.pə.zjɔ̃/	empesiez /ɑ̃.pə.zje/	empèsent /ɑ̃.pɛz/
	imperfect2	empesasse /ɑ̃p.zas/	empesasses /ɑ̃p.zas/	empesât /ɑ̃p.za/	empesassions /ɑ̃p.za.sjɔ̃/	empesassiez /ɑ̃p.za.sje/	empesassent /ɑ̃p.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empèse /ɑ̃.pɛz/	—	empesons /ɑ̃p.zɔ̃/	empesez /ɑ̃p.ze/	—
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

• empois

Further reading

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