accentuer

French

Etymology

From accent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/

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Verb

accentuer

1. to accentuate (emphasize)
2. to intensify
3. to accent (put an accent on a letter or symbol etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of accentuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accentuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accentuant /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accentué /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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/
	past historic2	accentuai /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/	accentuas /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa/	accentua /ak.sɑ̃.tɥa/	accentuâmes /ak.sɑ̃.tɥam/	accentuâtes /ak.sɑ̃.tɥat/	accentuèrent /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɛʁ/
	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/
	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/
(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	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/
	imperfect2	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/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accentue /ak.sɑ̃.ty/	—	accentuons /ak.sɑ̃.tɥɔ̃/	accentuez /ak.sɑ̃.tɥe/	—
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).

Further reading

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