acculer

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ culer

Verb

acculer

1. to corner someone, to prevent retreat or escape

   Une petite frange de fondamentalistes, plus radicaux encore que le président, ont peur que si Obama les accule par trop d'ouverture à ouvrir eux aussi le régime, tout leur échappe des mains. Le Monde

Conjugation

   Conjugation of acculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		acculer			avoir acculé
gerund		en acculant			en ayant acculé
present participle		acculant
past participle		acculé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	accule	accules	accule	acculons	acculez	acculent
	imperfect	acculais	acculais	acculait	acculions	acculiez	acculaient
	past historic1	acculai	acculas	accula	acculâmes	acculâtes	acculèrent
	future	acculerai	acculeras	acculera	acculerons	acculerez	acculeront
	conditional	acculerais	acculerais	acculerait	acculerions	acculeriez	acculeraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	accule	accules	accule	acculions	acculiez	acculent
	imperfect1	acculasse	acculasses	acculât	acculassions	acculassiez	acculassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	accule	—	acculons	acculez	—
1literary tenses

References

• "acculer" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).