assurer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
assurer (plural assurers)
- An insurer; an underwriter.
- One who takes out insurance.
- A person who or thing which assures.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French asseurer, from Old French asseürer, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe”). By surface analysis, a- + sûr + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
assurer
- to assure, to ensure, to make sure
- to do; to take care of; to carry out; to be in charge of
- Des bénévoles assurent le nettoyage des lieux.
- Volunteers take care of the cleaning of the premises.
- to insure, to give insurance to
- (climbing) to belay
Usage notes edit
S'assurer que, in the sense of "make sure," takes the indicative mood: Assurez-vous que la porte est bien fermée. [1] The subjunctive is seen at times (Assurez-vous que la porte soit bien fermée), especially where the connotation is that the listener should check and then do the thing if it is not already done, but is generally proscribed.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of assurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assurer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assurant /a.sy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assuré /a.sy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assure /a.syʁ/ |
assures /a.syʁ/ |
assure /a.syʁ/ |
assurons /a.sy.ʁɔ̃/ |
assurez /a.sy.ʁe/ |
assurent /a.syʁ/ |
| imperfect | assurais /a.sy.ʁɛ/ |
assurais /a.sy.ʁɛ/ |
assurait /a.sy.ʁɛ/ |
assurions /a.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assuriez /a.sy.ʁje/ |
assuraient /a.sy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assurai /a.sy.ʁe/ |
assuras /a.sy.ʁa/ |
assura /a.sy.ʁa/ |
assurâmes /a.sy.ʁam/ |
assurâtes /a.sy.ʁat/ |
assurèrent /a.sy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | assurerai /a.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
assureras /a.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
assurera /a.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
assurerons /a.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
assurerez /a.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
assureront /a.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assurerais /a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
assurerais /a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
assurerait /a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
assurerions /a.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assureriez /a.sy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
assureraient /a.sy.ʁə.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 | assure /a.syʁ/ |
assures /a.syʁ/ |
assure /a.syʁ/ |
assurions /a.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assuriez /a.sy.ʁje/ |
assurent /a.syʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | assurasse /a.sy.ʁas/ |
assurasses /a.sy.ʁas/ |
assurât /a.sy.ʁa/ |
assurassions /a.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
assurassiez /a.sy.ʁa.sje/ |
assurassent /a.sy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assure /a.syʁ/ |
— | assurons /a.sy.ʁɔ̃/ |
assurez /a.sy.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). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “assurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.