acquiescer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin acquiesco, acquiescere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kje.se/

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Verb

acquiescer

1. to acquiesce

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of acquiescer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acquiescer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	acquiesçant /a.kjɛ.sɑ̃/ or /a.kje.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acquiescé /a.kjɛ.se/ or /a.kje.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	acquiesce /a.kjɛs/	acquiesces /a.kjɛs/	acquiesce /a.kjɛs/	acquiesçons /a.kjɛ.sɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sɔ̃/	acquiescez /a.kjɛ.se/ or /a.kje.se/	acquiescent /a.kjɛs/
	imperfect	acquiesçais /a.kjɛ.sɛ/ or /a.kje.sɛ/	acquiesçais /a.kjɛ.sɛ/ or /a.kje.sɛ/	acquiesçait /a.kjɛ.sɛ/ or /a.kje.sɛ/	acquiescions /a.kjɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sjɔ̃/	acquiesciez /a.kjɛ.sje/ or /a.kje.sje/	acquiesçaient /a.kjɛ.sɛ/ or /a.kje.sɛ/
	past historic2	acquiesçai /a.kjɛ.se/ or /a.kje.se/	acquiesças /a.kjɛ.sa/ or /a.kje.sa/	acquiesça /a.kjɛ.sa/ or /a.kje.sa/	acquiesçâmes /a.kjɛ.sam/ or /a.kje.sam/	acquiesçâtes /a.kjɛ.sat/ or /a.kje.sat/	acquiescèrent /a.kjɛ.sɛʁ/ or /a.kje.sɛʁ/
	future	acquiescerai /a.kjɛ.sʁe/ or /a.kje.sʁe/	acquiesceras /a.kjɛ.sʁa/ or /a.kje.sʁa/	acquiescera /a.kjɛ.sʁa/ or /a.kje.sʁa/	acquiescerons /a.kjɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sʁɔ̃/	acquiescerez /a.kjɛ.sʁe/ or /a.kje.sʁe/	acquiesceront /a.kjɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acquiescerais /a.kjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /a.kje.sʁɛ/	acquiescerais /a.kjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /a.kje.sʁɛ/	acquiescerait /a.kjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /a.kje.sʁɛ/	acquiescerions /a.kjɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	acquiesceriez /a.kjɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /a.kje.sə.ʁje/	acquiesceraient /a.kjɛ.sʁɛ/ or /a.kje.sʁɛ/
(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	acquiesce /a.kjɛs/	acquiesces /a.kjɛs/	acquiesce /a.kjɛs/	acquiescions /a.kjɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sjɔ̃/	acquiesciez /a.kjɛ.sje/ or /a.kje.sje/	acquiescent /a.kjɛs/
	imperfect2	acquiesçasse /a.kjɛ.sas/ or /a.kje.sas/	acquiesçasses /a.kjɛ.sas/ or /a.kje.sas/	acquiesçât /a.kjɛ.sa/ or /a.kje.sa/	acquiesçassions /a.kjɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sa.sjɔ̃/	acquiesçassiez /a.kjɛ.sa.sje/ or /a.kje.sa.sje/	acquiesçassent /a.kjɛ.sas/ or /a.kje.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	acquiesce /a.kjɛs/	—	acquiesçons /a.kjɛ.sɔ̃/ or /a.kje.sɔ̃/	acquiescez /a.kjɛ.se/ or /a.kje.se/	—
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

• acquiescement

Further reading

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