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acculer
acculer
French
Verb
acculer
- to corner someone, to prevent retreat or escape
- Une petite frange de fondamentalistes, plus radicaux encore que le président, ont peur que si Obama les accule par trop d'ouverture à ouvrir eux aussi le régime, tout leur échappe des mains. Le Monde
Conjugation
Conjugation of acculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | acculer | avoir acculé | |||||
| gerund | en acculant | en ayant acculé | |||||
| present participle | acculant /a.ky.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | acculé /a.ky.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accule /a.kyl/ |
accules /a.kyl/ |
accule /a.kyl/ |
acculons /a.ky.lɔ̃/ |
acculez /a.ky.le/ |
acculent /a.kyl/ |
| imperfect | acculais /a.ky.lɛ/ |
acculais /a.ky.lɛ/ |
acculait /a.ky.lɛ/ |
acculions /a.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
acculiez /a.ky.lje/ |
acculaient /a.ky.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | acculai /a.ky.le/ |
acculas /a.ky.la/ |
accula /a.ky.la/ |
acculâmes /a.ky.lam/ |
acculâtes /a.ky.lat/ |
acculèrent /a.ky.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | acculerai /a.kyl.ʁe/ |
acculeras /a.kyl.ʁa/ |
acculera /a.kyl.ʁa/ |
acculerons /a.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
acculerez /a.kyl.ʁe/ |
acculeront /a.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | acculerais /a.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
acculerais /a.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
acculerait /a.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
acculerions /a.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
acculeriez /a.ky.lə.ʁje/ |
acculeraient /a.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accule /a.kyl/ |
accules /a.kyl/ |
accule /a.kyl/ |
acculions /a.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
acculiez /a.ky.lje/ |
acculent /a.kyl/ |
| imperfect1 |
acculasse /a.ky.las/ |
acculasses /a.ky.las/ |
acculât /a.ky.la/ |
acculassions /a.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
acculassiez /a.ky.la.sje/ |
acculassent /a.ky.las/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | accule /a.kyl/ |
— | acculons /a.ky.lɔ̃/ |
acculez /a.ky.le/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “acculer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).