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accentuer
accentuer
French
Verb
accentuer
- to accentuate (emphasize)
- to accent (put an accent on a letter or symbol etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of accentuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | accentuer | avoir accentué | |||||
| gerund | en accentuant | en ayant accentué | |||||
| present participle | accentuant /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | accentué /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentues /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentuons /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɔ̃/ |
accentuez /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/ |
accentuent /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
| imperfect | accentuais /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛ/ |
accentuais /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛ/ |
accentuait /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛ/ |
accentuions /ak.sɑ̃.ty.jɔ̃/ |
accentuiez /ak.sɑ̃.ty.je/ |
accentuaient /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | accentuai /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/ |
accentuas /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa/ |
accentua /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa/ |
accentuâmes /ak.sɑ̃.tɥam/ |
accentuâtes /ak.sɑ̃.tɥat/ |
accentuèrent /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛʁ/ |
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| future | accentuerai /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁe/ |
accentueras /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁa/ |
accentuera /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁa/ |
accentuerons /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
accentuerez /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁe/ |
accentueront /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | accentuerais /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁɛ/ |
accentuerais /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁɛ/ |
accentuerait /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁɛ/ |
accentuerions /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accentueriez /ak.sɑ̃.ty.ʁje/ |
accentueraient /ak.sɑ̃.ty.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 | accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentues /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
accentuions /ak.sɑ̃.ty.jɔ̃/ |
accentuiez /ak.sɑ̃.ty.je/ |
accentuent /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
| imperfect1 |
accentuasse /ak.sɑ̃.tɥas/ |
accentuasses /ak.sɑ̃.tɥas/ |
accentuât /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa/ |
accentuassions /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
accentuassiez /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa.sje/ |
accentuassent /ak.sɑ̃.tɥas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/ |
— | accentuons /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɔ̃/ |
accentuez /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/ |
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