accourir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin accurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
accourir
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of accourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accourant /a.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accouru /a.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accours /a.kuʁ/ |
accours /a.kuʁ/ |
accourt /a.kuʁ/ |
accourons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourez /a.ku.ʁe/ |
accourent /a.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | accourais /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourais /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourait /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accouriez /a.ku.ʁje/ |
accouraient /a.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accourus /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourus /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourut /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourûmes /a.ku.ʁym/ |
accourûtes /a.ku.ʁyt/ |
accoururent /a.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | accourrai /a.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
accourras /a.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
accourra /a.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
accourrons /a.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourrez /a.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
accourront /a.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accourrais /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
accourrais /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
accourrait /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
accourrions /a.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accourriez /a.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
accourraient /a.kuʁ.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 | accoure /a.kuʁ/ |
accoures /a.kuʁ/ |
accoure /a.kuʁ/ |
accourions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accouriez /a.ku.ʁje/ |
accourent /a.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | accourusse /a.ku.ʁys/ |
accourusses /a.ku.ʁys/ |
accourût /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourussions /a.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
accourussiez /a.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
accourussent /a.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accours /a.kuʁ/ |
— | accourons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourez /a.ku.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “accourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.