accommoder
French
Etymology
From Latin accommodō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: accommodai, accommodé, accommodée, accommodées, accommodés, accommodez
Verb
accommoder
- to accommodate
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter I, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
- Aussi essayait-il [d']accommoder [un nom à con cheval] qui désignât ce qu’il avait été avant d’entrer dans la chevalerie errante, et ce qu’il était alors.
- He also tried to accommodate [a name for his horse] that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of accommoder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accommoder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accommodant /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accommodé /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommodes /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommodons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɔ̃/ | accommodez /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/ | accommodent /a.kɔ.mɔd/ |
| imperfect | accommodais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/ | accommodais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/ | accommodait /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/ | accommodions /a.kɔ.mɔ.djɔ̃/ | accommodiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dje/ | accommodaient /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accommodai /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/ | accommodas /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/ | accommoda /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/ | accommodâmes /a.kɔ.mɔ.dam/ | accommodâtes /a.kɔ.mɔ.dat/ | accommodèrent /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | accommoderai /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁe/ | accommoderas /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁa/ | accommodera /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁa/ | accommoderons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɔ̃/ | accommoderez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁe/ | accommoderont /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accommoderais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/ | accommoderais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/ | accommoderait /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/ | accommoderions /a.kɔ.mɔ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | accommoderiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.də.ʁje/ | accommoderaient /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommodes /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | accommodions /a.kɔ.mɔ.djɔ̃/ | accommodiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dje/ | accommodent /a.kɔ.mɔd/ |
| imperfect2 | accommodasse /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/ | accommodasses /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/ | accommodât /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/ | accommodassions /a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃/ | accommodassiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sje/ | accommodassent /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/ | — | accommodons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɔ̃/ | accommodez /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- commode
Further reading
- “accommoder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- raccommode, raccommodé
Latin
Verb
accommoder
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of accommodō