imbiber
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Noun
imbiber (plural imbibers)
- One who imbibes, who drinks, especially alcoholic beverages.
- Synonym: drinker
- 1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LX”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume V, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 341:
- […] and yet, curiously enough, I am certain he will feel my question, “Where does the drinker get the means for his drinking?” more relevant in the case of the imbibers of port than in that of the imbibers of champagne.
- 2023 May 28, Alice Lascelles, quoting Nick Bodkins, “What's the buzz?”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 61:
- “Demand is primarily coming from a mix of Gen Z consumers and imbibers who are looking for the ‘feel’ without the feel tomorrow,” says CEO Nick Bodkins. “But fully abstaining customers are a very small subset of our consumer base.”
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin imbibere. Doublet of emboire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.bi.be/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of imbiber (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | imbiber | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | imbibant /ɛ̃.bi.bɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | imbibé /ɛ̃.bi.be/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibes /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibons /ɛ̃.bi.bɔ̃/ |
imbibez /ɛ̃.bi.be/ |
imbibent /ɛ̃.bib/ |
| imperfect | imbibais /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/ |
imbibais /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/ |
imbibait /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/ |
imbibions /ɛ̃.bi.bjɔ̃/ |
imbibiez /ɛ̃.bi.bje/ |
imbibaient /ɛ̃.bi.bɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | imbibai /ɛ̃.bi.be/ |
imbibas /ɛ̃.bi.ba/ |
imbiba /ɛ̃.bi.ba/ |
imbibâmes /ɛ̃.bi.bam/ |
imbibâtes /ɛ̃.bi.bat/ |
imbibèrent /ɛ̃.bi.bɛʁ/ | |
| future | imbiberai /ɛ̃.bi.bʁe/ |
imbiberas /ɛ̃.bi.bʁa/ |
imbibera /ɛ̃.bi.bʁa/ |
imbiberons /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɔ̃/ |
imbiberez /ɛ̃.bi.bʁe/ |
imbiberont /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | imbiberais /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/ |
imbiberais /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/ |
imbiberait /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/ |
imbiberions /ɛ̃.bi.bə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
imbiberiez /ɛ̃.bi.bə.ʁje/ |
imbiberaient /ɛ̃.bi.bʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibes /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/ |
imbibions /ɛ̃.bi.bjɔ̃/ |
imbibiez /ɛ̃.bi.bje/ |
imbibent /ɛ̃.bib/ |
| imperfect2 | imbibasse /ɛ̃.bi.bas/ |
imbibasses /ɛ̃.bi.bas/ |
imbibât /ɛ̃.bi.ba/ |
imbibassions /ɛ̃.bi.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
imbibassiez /ɛ̃.bi.ba.sje/ |
imbibassent /ɛ̃.bi.bas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | imbibe /ɛ̃.bib/ |
— | imbibons /ɛ̃.bi.bɔ̃/ |
imbibez /ɛ̃.bi.be/ |
— | |
| 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
- “imbiber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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