rassurer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rasseürer, from re- + asseürer. By surface analysis, r- +‎ assurer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.sy.ʁe/

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Verb

rassurer

1. to reassure

   Synonym: rasséréner

2. to calm down

Conjugation

Conjugation of rassurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rassurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rassurant /ʁa.sy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rassuré /ʁa.sy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rassure /ʁa.syʁ/	rassures /ʁa.syʁ/	rassure /ʁa.syʁ/	rassurons /ʁa.sy.ʁɔ̃/	rassurez /ʁa.sy.ʁe/	rassurent /ʁa.syʁ/
	imperfect	rassurais /ʁa.sy.ʁɛ/	rassurais /ʁa.sy.ʁɛ/	rassurait /ʁa.sy.ʁɛ/	rassurions /ʁa.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	rassuriez /ʁa.sy.ʁje/	rassuraient /ʁa.sy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	rassurai /ʁa.sy.ʁe/	rassuras /ʁa.sy.ʁa/	rassura /ʁa.sy.ʁa/	rassurâmes /ʁa.sy.ʁam/	rassurâtes /ʁa.sy.ʁat/	rassurèrent /ʁa.sy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	rassurerai /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	rassureras /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	rassurera /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	rassurerons /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	rassurerez /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	rassureront /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rassurerais /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rassurerais /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rassurerait /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	rassurerions /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	rassureriez /ʁa.sy.ʁə.ʁje/	rassureraient /ʁa.sy.ʁə.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	rassure /ʁa.syʁ/	rassures /ʁa.syʁ/	rassure /ʁa.syʁ/	rassurions /ʁa.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	rassuriez /ʁa.sy.ʁje/	rassurent /ʁa.syʁ/
	imperfect2	rassurasse /ʁa.sy.ʁas/	rassurasses /ʁa.sy.ʁas/	rassurât /ʁa.sy.ʁa/	rassurassions /ʁa.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	rassurassiez /ʁa.sy.ʁa.sje/	rassurassent /ʁa.sy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rassure /ʁa.syʁ/	—	rassurons /ʁa.sy.ʁɔ̃/	rassurez /ʁa.sy.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• rassurant

Further reading

• “rassurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.