assumer

English

Etymology

assume +‎ -er

Noun

assumer (plural assumers)

1. One who assumes.
   • 1987, Jerald C. Brauer, The Lively Experiment Continued, page 231:

     […] and in the context of a grotesque caricature of what the discipline of history is all about for which I would flunk an undergraduate, this self-chosen assumer of the mantle of Amos candidly detailed what was left out of his analysis.

Anagrams

• Erasmus, Mausers, Semraus, amusers, masseur

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assūmere, from ad- + sūmō (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sy.me/

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Verb

assumer

1. (transitive) embrace; accept; own

   assumer ses erreurs

   to embrace one's mistakes

2. (transitive) assume (take on a role)

   assumer la responsabilité d’une chose

   to take on responsibility for something

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) take responsibility

   Un adolescent devient adulte lorsqu’il peut s’assumer.

   A teenager becomes an adult when he can take responsibility.

4. (transitive, proscribed) Synonym of présumer (“to assume; to presume”); considered an Anglicism.

Conjugation

Conjugation of assumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assumant /a.sy.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assumé /a.sy.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assume /a.sym/	assumes /a.sym/	assume /a.sym/	assumons /a.sy.mɔ̃/	assumez /a.sy.me/	assument /a.sym/
	imperfect	assumais /a.sy.mɛ/	assumais /a.sy.mɛ/	assumait /a.sy.mɛ/	assumions /a.sy.mjɔ̃/	assumiez /a.sy.mje/	assumaient /a.sy.mɛ/
	past historic2	assumai /a.sy.me/	assumas /a.sy.ma/	assuma /a.sy.ma/	assumâmes /a.sy.mam/	assumâtes /a.sy.mat/	assumèrent /a.sy.mɛʁ/
	future	assumerai /a.sym.ʁe/	assumeras /a.sym.ʁa/	assumera /a.sym.ʁa/	assumerons /a.sym.ʁɔ̃/	assumerez /a.sym.ʁe/	assumeront /a.sym.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assumerais /a.sym.ʁɛ/	assumerais /a.sym.ʁɛ/	assumerait /a.sym.ʁɛ/	assumerions /a.sy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	assumeriez /a.sy.mə.ʁje/	assumeraient /a.sym.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	assume /a.sym/	assumes /a.sym/	assume /a.sym/	assumions /a.sy.mjɔ̃/	assumiez /a.sy.mje/	assument /a.sym/
	imperfect2	assumasse /a.sy.mas/	assumasses /a.sy.mas/	assumât /a.sy.ma/	assumassions /a.sy.ma.sjɔ̃/	assumassiez /a.sy.ma.sje/	assumassent /a.sy.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assume /a.sym/	—	assumons /a.sy.mɔ̃/	assumez /a.sy.me/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• masseur, mesuras, murasse, museras, résumas