accourir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin accurrere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ku.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

accourir

1. (intransitive) to rush up, run up, hurry [with à or vers ‘to’]
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     En effet, ces femmes, accourant à la fois dans sa pensée, s'y gênaient les unes les autres et s'y rapetissaient, comme sous un même niveau d'amour qui les égalisait.

     In fact, these women, rushing at once into his thoughts, cramped each other and lessened, as reduced to a uniform level of love that equalised them all.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.

Conjugation of accourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accourir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accourant /a.ku.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accouru /a.ku.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accours /a.kuʁ/	accours /a.kuʁ/	accourt /a.kuʁ/	accourons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/	accourez /a.ku.ʁe/	accourent /a.kuʁ/
	imperfect	accourais /a.ku.ʁɛ/	accourais /a.ku.ʁɛ/	accourait /a.ku.ʁɛ/	accourions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/	accouriez /a.ku.ʁje/	accouraient /a.ku.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	accourus /a.ku.ʁy/	accourus /a.ku.ʁy/	accourut /a.ku.ʁy/	accourûmes /a.ku.ʁym/	accourûtes /a.ku.ʁyt/	accoururent /a.ku.ʁyʁ/
	future	accourrai /a.kuʁ.ʁe/	accourras /a.kuʁ.ʁa/	accourra /a.kuʁ.ʁa/	accourrons /a.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/	accourrez /a.kuʁ.ʁe/	accourront /a.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accourrais /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	accourrais /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	accourrait /a.kuʁ.ʁɛ/	accourrions /a.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/	accourriez /a.kuʁ.ʁje/	accourraient /a.kuʁ.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	accoure /a.kuʁ/	accoures /a.kuʁ/	accoure /a.kuʁ/	accourions /a.ku.ʁjɔ̃/	accouriez /a.ku.ʁje/	accourent /a.kuʁ/
	imperfect2	accourusse /a.ku.ʁys/	accourusses /a.ku.ʁys/	accourût /a.ku.ʁy/	accourussions /a.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	accourussiez /a.ku.ʁy.sje/	accourussent /a.ku.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accours /a.kuʁ/	—	accourons /a.ku.ʁɔ̃/	accourez /a.ku.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).

Further reading

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