accommoder

French

Etymology

From Latin accommodāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: accommodai, accommodé, accommodée, accommodées, accommodés, accommodez

Verb

accommoder

1. to accommodate
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter I, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Aussi essayait-il [d’]accommoder [un nom à con cheval] qui désignât ce qu’il avait été avant d’entrer dans la chevalerie errante, et ce qu’il était alors.

     He also tried to accommodate [a name for his horse] that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.

Conjugation

Conjugation of accommoder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accommoder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accommodant /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accommodé /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommodes /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommodons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɔ̃/	accommodez /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/	accommodent /a.kɔ.mɔd/
	imperfect	accommodais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/	accommodais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/	accommodait /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/	accommodions /a.kɔ.mɔ.djɔ̃/	accommodiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dje/	accommodaient /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛ/
	past historic2	accommodai /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/	accommodas /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/	accommoda /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/	accommodâmes /a.kɔ.mɔ.dam/	accommodâtes /a.kɔ.mɔ.dat/	accommodèrent /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɛʁ/
	future	accommoderai /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁe/	accommoderas /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁa/	accommodera /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁa/	accommoderons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɔ̃/	accommoderez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁe/	accommoderont /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accommoderais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/	accommoderais /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/	accommoderait /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/	accommoderions /a.kɔ.mɔ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	accommoderiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.də.ʁje/	accommoderaient /a.kɔ.mɔ.dʁɛ/
(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	accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommodes /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/	accommodions /a.kɔ.mɔ.djɔ̃/	accommodiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.dje/	accommodent /a.kɔ.mɔd/
	imperfect2	accommodasse /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/	accommodasses /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/	accommodât /a.kɔ.mɔ.da/	accommodassions /a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃/	accommodassiez /a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sje/	accommodassent /a.kɔ.mɔ.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accommode /a.kɔ.mɔd/	—	accommodons /a.kɔ.mɔ.dɔ̃/	accommodez /a.kɔ.mɔ.de/	—
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

• commode

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• raccommode, raccommodé

Latin

Verb

accommoder

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of accommodō