accidenter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

accidenter

1. (transitive) to damage; to hurt (in an accident)

Conjugation

Conjugation of accidenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accidenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accidentant /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accidenté /ak.si.dɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accidente /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidentes /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidente /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidentons /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɔ̃/	accidentez /ak.si.dɑ̃.te/	accidentent /ak.si.dɑ̃t/
	imperfect	accidentais /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɛ/	accidentais /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɛ/	accidentait /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɛ/	accidentions /ak.si.dɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	accidentiez /ak.si.dɑ̃.tje/	accidentaient /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	accidentai /ak.si.dɑ̃.te/	accidentas /ak.si.dɑ̃.ta/	accidenta /ak.si.dɑ̃.ta/	accidentâmes /ak.si.dɑ̃.tam/	accidentâtes /ak.si.dɑ̃.tat/	accidentèrent /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	accidenterai /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁe/	accidenteras /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁa/	accidentera /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁa/	accidenterons /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	accidenterez /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁe/	accidenteront /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accidenterais /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɛ/	accidenterais /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɛ/	accidenterait /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɛ/	accidenterions /ak.si.dɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	accidenteriez /ak.si.dɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	accidenteraient /ak.si.dɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	accidente /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidentes /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidente /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	accidentions /ak.si.dɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	accidentiez /ak.si.dɑ̃.tje/	accidentent /ak.si.dɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	accidentasse /ak.si.dɑ̃.tas/	accidentasses /ak.si.dɑ̃.tas/	accidentât /ak.si.dɑ̃.ta/	accidentassions /ak.si.dɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	accidentassiez /ak.si.dɑ̃.ta.sje/	accidentassent /ak.si.dɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accidente /ak.si.dɑ̃t/	—	accidentons /ak.si.dɑ̃.tɔ̃/	accidentez /ak.si.dɑ̃.te/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• accidentable

Further reading

• “accidenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.