émousser
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.mu.se/
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Verb
émousser
- to dull, blunt (to render blunt; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp)
- (figuratively) to dull (a feeling)
- 1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:
- Ma sensibilité pour les charmes féminins s’est un peu émoussée, mais, dans les rapports sexuels avec la femme, surtout quand elle a des seins forts, je suis toujours puissant sans avoir besoin de me créer dans mon imagination des scènes excitantes.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of émousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | émousser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | émoussant /e.mu.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | émoussé /e.mu.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | émousse /e.mus/ |
émousses /e.mus/ |
émousse /e.mus/ |
émoussons /e.mu.sɔ̃/ |
émoussez /e.mu.se/ |
émoussent /e.mus/ |
| imperfect | émoussais /e.mu.sɛ/ |
émoussais /e.mu.sɛ/ |
émoussait /e.mu.sɛ/ |
émoussions /e.mu.sjɔ̃/ |
émoussiez /e.mu.sje/ |
émoussaient /e.mu.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | émoussai /e.mu.se/ |
émoussas /e.mu.sa/ |
émoussa /e.mu.sa/ |
émoussâmes /e.mu.sam/ |
émoussâtes /e.mu.sat/ |
émoussèrent /e.mu.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | émousserai /e.mu.sʁe/ |
émousseras /e.mu.sʁa/ |
émoussera /e.mu.sʁa/ |
émousserons /e.mu.sʁɔ̃/ |
émousserez /e.mu.sʁe/ |
émousseront /e.mu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | émousserais /e.mu.sʁɛ/ |
émousserais /e.mu.sʁɛ/ |
émousserait /e.mu.sʁɛ/ |
émousserions /e.mu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
émousseriez /e.mu.sə.ʁje/ |
émousseraient /e.mu.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | émousse /e.mus/ |
émousses /e.mus/ |
émousse /e.mus/ |
émoussions /e.mu.sjɔ̃/ |
émoussiez /e.mu.sje/ |
émoussent /e.mus/ |
| imperfect2 | émoussasse /e.mu.sas/ |
émoussasses /e.mu.sas/ |
émoussât /e.mu.sa/ |
émoussassions /e.mu.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
émoussassiez /e.mu.sa.sje/ |
émoussassent /e.mu.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | émousse /e.mus/ |
— | émoussons /e.mu.sɔ̃/ |
émoussez /e.mu.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “émousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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