embaucher
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.bo.ʃe/
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Verb
embaucher
- to hire, to employ
- Antonym: débaucher
- Certains employeurs embauchent des travailleurs clandestins.
- Some employers hire illegal workers.
Conjugation
Conjugation of embaucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | embaucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | embauchant /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | embauché /ɑ̃.bo.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | embauche /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauches /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauche /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauchons /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɔ̃/ |
embauchez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃe/ |
embauchent /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
| imperfect | embauchais /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɛ/ |
embauchais /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɛ/ |
embauchait /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɛ/ |
embauchions /ɑ̃.bo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
embauchiez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃje/ |
embauchaient /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | embauchai /ɑ̃.bo.ʃe/ |
embauchas /ɑ̃.bo.ʃa/ |
embaucha /ɑ̃.bo.ʃa/ |
embauchâmes /ɑ̃.bo.ʃam/ |
embauchâtes /ɑ̃.bo.ʃat/ |
embauchèrent /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | embaucherai /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁe/ |
embaucheras /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁa/ |
embauchera /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁa/ |
embaucherons /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
embaucherez /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁe/ |
embaucheront /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | embaucherais /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁɛ/ |
embaucherais /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁɛ/ |
embaucherait /ɑ̃.boʃ.ʁɛ/ |
embaucherions /ɑ̃.bo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
embaucheriez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃə.ʁje/ |
embaucheraient /ɑ̃.boʃ.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 | embauche /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauches /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauche /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
embauchions /ɑ̃.bo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
embauchiez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃje/ |
embauchent /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | embauchasse /ɑ̃.bo.ʃas/ |
embauchasses /ɑ̃.bo.ʃas/ |
embauchât /ɑ̃.bo.ʃa/ |
embauchassions /ɑ̃.bo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
embauchassiez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃa.sje/ |
embauchassent /ɑ̃.bo.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | embauche /ɑ̃.boʃ/ |
— | embauchons /ɑ̃.bo.ʃɔ̃/ |
embauchez /ɑ̃.bo.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “embaucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.