empêtrer
French, verb/ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe/
empêtrer is a French verb meaning “to ensnare, to entangle, to bog down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Engager dans des entraves, dans ce qui gêne”.
What does empêtrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ensnare, to entangle, to bog down
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Engager dans des entraves, dans ce qui gêne.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of empêtrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- empêtrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- empêtré participle past
- empêtre first-person indicative present
- empêtres indicative present second-person
- empêtrons first-person indicative plural
- empêtrez indicative plural present
- empêtrent indicative plural present
- empêtrais first-person imperfect indicative
- empêtrait imperfect indicative singular
- empêtrions first-person imperfect indicative
- empêtriez imperfect indicative plural
- empêtraient imperfect indicative plural
- empêtrai first-person historic indicative
- empêtras historic indicative past
- empêtra historic indicative past
- empêtrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce empêtrer?
- /ɑ̃.pɛ.tʁe/
- /ɑ̃.pe.tʁe/
- \ɑ̃.pe.tʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to empêtrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empêtrer in French?
empêtrer appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).