accompagner
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French acompagner (“to associate with”), from compaing (“companion”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
accompagner
- (transitive) to accompany, to escort
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of accompagner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accompagner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accompagnant /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accompagné /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagnes /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagnons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/ |
accompagnez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/ |
accompagnent /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
| imperfect | accompagnais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/ |
accompagnais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/ |
accompagnait /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/ |
accompagnions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
accompagniez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/ |
accompagnaient /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accompagnai /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/ |
accompagnas /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/ |
accompagna /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/ |
accompagnâmes /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲam/ |
accompagnâtes /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲat/ |
accompagnèrent /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | accompagnerai /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/ |
accompagneras /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/ |
accompagnera /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/ |
accompagnerons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
accompagnerez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/ |
accompagneront /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accompagnerais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
accompagnerais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
accompagnerait /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
accompagnerions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accompagneriez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁje/ |
accompagneraient /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.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 | accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagnes /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
accompagnions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
accompagniez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/ |
accompagnent /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | accompagnasse /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/ |
accompagnasses /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/ |
accompagnât /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/ |
accompagnassions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
accompagnassiez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sje/ |
accompagnassent /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/ |
— | accompagnons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/ |
accompagnez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “accompagner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.