accueillir
French
Etymology
From Old French acoillir, from Vulgar Latin *accolligō (adapted to cueillir), from Latin ad- + colligō (whence cueillir). Compare Portuguese acolher, Spanish acoger, Italian accogliere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kœ.jiʁ/
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Verb
accueillir
- to welcome, to accommodate
- to host
Conjugation
Conjugation of accueillir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accueillir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accueillant /a.kœ.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accueilli /a.kœ.ji/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | accueille /a.kœj/ | accueilles /a.kœj/ | accueille /a.kœj/ | accueillons /a.kœ.jɔ̃/ | accueillez /a.kœ.je/ | accueillent /a.kœj/ |
| imperfect | accueillais /a.kœ.jɛ/ | accueillais /a.kœ.jɛ/ | accueillait /a.kœ.jɛ/ | accueillions /a.kœj.jɔ̃/ | accueilliez /a.kœj.je/ | accueillaient /a.kœ.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accueillis /a.kœ.ji/ | accueillis /a.kœ.ji/ | accueillit /a.kœ.ji/ | accueillîmes /a.kœ.jim/ | accueillîtes /a.kœ.jit/ | accueillirent /a.kœ.jiʁ/ | |
| future | accueillirai or accueillerai /a.kœ.ji.ʁe/ or /a.kœj.ʁe/ | accueilliras or accueilleras /a.kœ.ji.ʁa/ or /a.kœj.ʁa/ | accueillira or accueillera /a.kœ.ji.ʁa/ or /a.kœj.ʁa/ | accueillirons or accueillerons /a.kœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.kœj.ʁɔ̃/ | accueillirez or accueillerez /a.kœ.ji.ʁe/ or /a.kœj.ʁe/ | accueilliront or accueilleront /a.kœ.ji.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.kœj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accueillirais or accueillerais /a.kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /a.kœj.ʁɛ/ | accueillirais or accueillerais /a.kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /a.kœj.ʁɛ/ | accueillirait or accueillerait /a.kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /a.kœj.ʁɛ/ | accueillirions or accueillerions /a.kœ.ji.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.kœ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | accueilliriez or accueilleriez /a.kœ.ji.ʁje/ or /a.kœ.jə.ʁje/ | accueilliraient or accueilleraient /a.kœ.ji.ʁɛ/ or /a.kœj.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 | accueille /a.kœj/ | accueilles /a.kœj/ | accueille /a.kœj/ | accueillions /a.kœj.jɔ̃/ | accueilliez /a.kœj.je/ | accueillent /a.kœj/ |
| imperfect2 | accueillisse /a.kœ.jis/ | accueillisses /a.kœ.jis/ | accueillît /a.kœ.ji/ | accueillissions /a.kœ.ji.sjɔ̃/ | accueillissiez /a.kœ.ji.sje/ | accueillissent /a.kœ.jis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accueille /a.kœj/ | — | accueillons /a.kœ.jɔ̃/ | accueillez /a.kœ.je/ | — | |
| 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
- accueil
- cueillir
- recueillir
Further reading
- “accueillir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.