empoissonner

French

Etymology

From en- +‎ poisson (“fish”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

empoissonner

1. to stock with fish; to populate with fish

Conjugation

Conjugation of empoissonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	empoissonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	empoissonnant /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		empoissonné /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	empoissonne /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonnes /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonne /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonnons /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɔ̃/	empoissonnez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/	empoissonnent /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/
	imperfect	empoissonnais /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɛ/	empoissonnais /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɛ/	empoissonnait /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɛ/	empoissonnions /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.njɔ̃/	empoissonniez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nje/	empoissonnaient /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	empoissonnai /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/	empoissonnas /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.na/	empoissonna /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.na/	empoissonnâmes /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nam/	empoissonnâtes /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nat/	empoissonnèrent /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	empoissonnerai /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁe/	empoissonneras /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁa/	empoissonnera /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁa/	empoissonnerons /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	empoissonnerez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁe/	empoissonneront /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	empoissonnerais /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁɛ/	empoissonnerais /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁɛ/	empoissonnerait /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.ʁɛ/	empoissonnerions /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	empoissonneriez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	empoissonneraient /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn.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	empoissonne /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonnes /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonne /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	empoissonnions /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.njɔ̃/	empoissonniez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nje/	empoissonnent /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/
	imperfect2	empoissonnasse /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nas/	empoissonnasses /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nas/	empoissonnât /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.na/	empoissonnassions /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	empoissonnassiez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.na.sje/	empoissonnassent /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	empoissonne /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔn/	—	empoissonnons /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.nɔ̃/	empoissonnez /ɑ̃.pwa.sɔ.ne/	—
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

• empoissonnement

Further reading

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