accourir

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin accurrere.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /a.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb edit

accourir

(intransitive) to rush up, run up, hurry [+ à (object) = to] or [+ vers (object) = to]

Conjugation edit

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	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	accourir
present participle or gerund¹	simple	accourant /a.ku.ʁɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
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: 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).