accoter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin accubitāre, with the influence of Old French acoster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔ.te/

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Verb

accoter

1. (reflexive) to lean
2. (transitive) to support, to rest (on)
3. (Quebec, informal) to equal

Conjugation

Conjugation of accoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accotant /a.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accoté /a.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accote /a.kɔt/	accotes /a.kɔt/	accote /a.kɔt/	accotons /a.kɔ.tɔ̃/	accotez /a.kɔ.te/	accotent /a.kɔt/
	imperfect	accotais /a.kɔ.tɛ/	accotais /a.kɔ.tɛ/	accotait /a.kɔ.tɛ/	accotions /a.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	accotiez /a.kɔ.tje/	accotaient /a.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	accotai /a.kɔ.te/	accotas /a.kɔ.ta/	accota /a.kɔ.ta/	accotâmes /a.kɔ.tam/	accotâtes /a.kɔ.tat/	accotèrent /a.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	accoterai /a.kɔ.tʁe/	accoteras /a.kɔ.tʁa/	accotera /a.kɔ.tʁa/	accoterons /a.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	accoterez /a.kɔ.tʁe/	accoteront /a.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accoterais /a.kɔ.tʁɛ/	accoterais /a.kɔ.tʁɛ/	accoterait /a.kɔ.tʁɛ/	accoterions /a.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	accoteriez /a.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	accoteraient /a.kɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	accote /a.kɔt/	accotes /a.kɔt/	accote /a.kɔt/	accotions /a.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	accotiez /a.kɔ.tje/	accotent /a.kɔt/
	imperfect2	accotasse /a.kɔ.tas/	accotasses /a.kɔ.tas/	accotât /a.kɔ.ta/	accotassions /a.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	accotassiez /a.kɔ.ta.sje/	accotassent /a.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accote /a.kɔt/	—	accotons /a.kɔ.tɔ̃/	accotez /a.kɔ.te/	—
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

• accotement

Further reading

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