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accourir
accourir
French
Verb
accourir
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | accourir | avoir accouru | |||||
| gerund | en accourant | en ayant accouru | |||||
| present participle | accourant /a.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | accouru /a.ku.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | accourus /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourus /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourut /a.ku.ʁy/ |
accourûmes /a.ku.ʁym/ |
accourûtes /a.ku.ʁyt/ |
accoururent /a.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | accourrai /a.ku.ʁe/ |
accourras /a.ku.ʁa/ |
accourra /a.ku.ʁa/ |
accourrons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourrez /a.ku.ʁe/ |
accourront /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | accourrais /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourrais /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourrait /a.ku.ʁɛ/ |
accourrions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accourriez /a.ku.ʁje/ |
accourraient /a.ku.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 | accoure /a.kuʁ/ |
accoures /a.kuʁ/ |
accoure /a.kuʁ/ |
accourions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accouriez /a.ku.ʁje/ |
accourent /a.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | accours /a.kuʁ/ |
— | accourons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
accourez /a.ku.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||