emmener

French

Etymology

Attested in Old French as enmener. By surface analysis, en- +‎ mener.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.m(ə).ne/

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Verb

emmener

1. (transitive) to take off, take away or out
2. (transitive) to take (someone) along somewhere, to take (something) with (someone)
   • 1997, “J’t’emmène au vent”, performed by Louise Attaque:

     Allez viens, j’t’emmène au vent / Je t’emmène au-dessus des gens

     Come on, I'll take you with me to the wind / I'll take you with me above the people

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 emmène and the third-person singular future indicative il emmènera.

Conjugation of emmener (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	emmener
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	emmenant /ɑ̃m.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		emmené /ɑ̃m.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmènes /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmenons /ɑ̃m.nɔ̃/	emmenez /ɑ̃m.ne/	emmènent /ɑ̃.mɛn/
	imperfect	emmenais /ɑ̃m.nɛ/	emmenais /ɑ̃m.nɛ/	emmenait /ɑ̃m.nɛ/	emmenions /ɑ̃.mə.njɔ̃/	emmeniez /ɑ̃.mə.nje/	emmenaient /ɑ̃m.nɛ/
	past historic2	emmenai /ɑ̃m.ne/	emmenas /ɑ̃m.na/	emmena /ɑ̃m.na/	emmenâmes /ɑ̃m.nam/	emmenâtes /ɑ̃m.nat/	emmenèrent /ɑ̃m.nɛʁ/
	future	emmènerai /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁe/	emmèneras /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁa/	emmènera /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁa/	emmènerons /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/	emmènerez /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁe/	emmèneront /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	emmènerais /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/	emmènerais /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/	emmènerait /ɑ̃.mɛn.ʁɛ/	emmènerions /ɑ̃.mɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.me.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	emmèneriez /ɑ̃.mɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.me.nə.ʁje/	emmèneraient /ɑ̃.mɛn.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	emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmènes /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/	emmenions /ɑ̃.mə.njɔ̃/	emmeniez /ɑ̃.mə.nje/	emmènent /ɑ̃.mɛn/
	imperfect2	emmenasse /ɑ̃m.nas/	emmenasses /ɑ̃m.nas/	emmenât /ɑ̃m.na/	emmenassions /ɑ̃m.na.sjɔ̃/	emmenassiez /ɑ̃m.na.sje/	emmenassent /ɑ̃m.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	emmène /ɑ̃.mɛn/	—	emmenons /ɑ̃m.nɔ̃/	emmenez /ɑ̃m.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).

Related terms

• amener
• apporter
• emporter

Further reading

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