escorter
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowing from Italian scorta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]escorter
- to escort
- to accompany
- 10 December 2022, “Angleterre-France : le king Giroud délivre des Bleus qui filent en demi-finale de la Coupe du monde”, in Le Figaro:
- Le rêve se poursuit et avec lui les espoirs les plus fous l’escortent.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of escorter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | escorter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | escortant /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | escorté /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ |
escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ |
escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ |
escortait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ |
escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/ |
escortaient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | escortai /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/ |
escortas /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ |
escorta /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ |
escortâmes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tam/ |
escortâtes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tat/ |
escortèrent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | escorterai /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
escorteras /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
escortera /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
escorterons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
escorterez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
escorteront /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
escorterait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
escorterions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
escorteriez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
escorteraient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.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 | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/ |
escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | escortasse /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ |
escortasses /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ |
escortât /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/ |
escortassions /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
escortassiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
escortassent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/ |
— | escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “escorter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.