émacier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin emaciare (“to emaciate”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /e.ma.sje/
  • Audio (Lyon, France):(file)

Verb

émacier

  1. (transitive) to make someone emaciated, to emaciate someone
  2. (reflexive) to become emaciated
    Il s'a émacié pendant la famine. ― He had become emaciated during the famine.

Conjugation
Conjugation of émacier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple émacier
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple émaciant
/e.ma.sjɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle émacié
/e.ma.sje/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present émacie
/e.ma.si/		 émacies
/e.ma.si/		 émacie
/e.ma.si/		 émacions
/e.ma.sjɔ̃/		 émaciez
/e.ma.sje/		 émacient
/e.ma.si/
imperfect émaciais
/e.ma.sjɛ/		 émaciais
/e.ma.sjɛ/		 émaciait
/e.ma.sjɛ/		 émaciions
/e.ma.si.jɔ̃/		 émaciiez
/e.ma.si.je/		 émaciaient
/e.ma.sjɛ/
past historic2 émaciai
/e.ma.sje/		 émacias
/e.ma.sja/		 émacia
/e.ma.sja/		 émaciâmes
/e.ma.sjam/		 émaciâtes
/e.ma.sjat/		 émacièrent
/e.ma.sjɛʁ/
future émacierai
/e.ma.si.ʁe/		 émacieras
/e.ma.si.ʁa/		 émaciera
/e.ma.si.ʁa/		 émacierons
/e.ma.si.ʁɔ̃/		 émacierez
/e.ma.si.ʁe/		 émacieront
/e.ma.si.ʁɔ̃/
conditional émacierais
/e.ma.si.ʁɛ/		 émacierais
/e.ma.si.ʁɛ/		 émacierait
/e.ma.si.ʁɛ/		 émacierions
/e.ma.si.ʁjɔ̃/		 émacieriez
/e.ma.si.ʁje/		 émacieraient
/e.ma.si.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 émacie
/e.ma.si/		 émacies
/e.ma.si/		 émacie
/e.ma.si/		 émaciions
/e.ma.si.jɔ̃/		 émaciiez
/e.ma.si.je/		 émacient
/e.ma.si/
imperfect2 émaciasse
/e.ma.sjas/		 émaciasses
/e.ma.sjas/		 émaciât
/e.ma.sja/		 émaciassions
/e.ma.sja.sjɔ̃/		 émaciassiez
/e.ma.sja.sje/		 émaciassent
/e.ma.sjas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — émacie
/e.ma.si/		 — émacions
/e.ma.sjɔ̃/		 émaciez
/e.ma.sje/		 —
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).

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