escorter
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Italian scorta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/
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Verb
escorter
- to escort
- to accompany
- 10 December 2022, “Angleterre-France : le king Giroud délivre des Bleus qui filent en demi-finale de la Coupe du monde”, in Le Figaro:
- Le rêve se poursuit et avec lui les espoirs les plus fous l'escortent.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Conjugation
Conjugation of escorter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | escorter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | escortant /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | escorté /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/ | escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ | escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
imperfect | escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ | escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ | escortait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ | escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ | escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/ | escortaient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | escortai /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ | escortas /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ | escorta /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ | escortâmes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tam/ | escortâtes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tat/ | escortèrent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | escorterai /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ | escorteras /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ | escortera /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ | escorterons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | escorterez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ | escorteront /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | escorterait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | escorterions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | escorteriez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ | escorteraient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.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 | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ | escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/ | escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
imperfect2 | escortasse /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ | escortasses /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ | escortât /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ | escortassions /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | escortassiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sje/ | escortassent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ | — | escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/ | escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “escorter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- corseter