accourir
French
Etymology
From Latin accurrere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
accourir
- (intransitive) to rush up, run up, hurry [+ à (object) = to] or [+ vers (object) = to]
Conjugation
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 | simple | accourir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | accourant /a.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
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/ |
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 | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “accourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.