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

1. to welcome, to accommodate
2. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Related terms

• accueil
• cueillir
• recueillir

Further reading

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