assavoir

French

Etymology

Ultimately from a- +‎ savoir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.vwaʁ/

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Verb

assavoir

1. (obsolete except Canada) to know

Conjugation

Conjugation of assavoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assavoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assachant /a.sa.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assu /a.sy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assais /a.sɛ/	assais /a.sɛ/	assait /a.sɛ/	assavons /a.sa.vɔ̃/	assavez /a.sa.ve/	assavent /a.sav/
	imperfect	assavais /a.sa.vɛ/	assavais /a.sa.vɛ/	assavait /a.sa.vɛ/	assavions /a.sa.vjɔ̃/	assaviez /a.sa.vje/	assavaient /a.sa.vɛ/
	past historic2	assus /a.sy/	assus /a.sy/	assut /a.sy/	assûmes /a.sym/	assûtes /a.syt/	assurent /a.syʁ/
	future	assaurai /a.sɔ.ʁe/ or /a.so.ʁe/	assauras /a.sɔ.ʁa/ or /a.so.ʁa/	assaura /a.sɔ.ʁa/ or /a.so.ʁa/	assaurons /a.sɔ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.so.ʁɔ̃/	assaurez /a.sɔ.ʁe/ or /a.so.ʁe/	assauront /a.sɔ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.so.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assaurais /a.sɔ.ʁɛ/ or /a.so.ʁɛ/	assaurais /a.sɔ.ʁɛ/ or /a.so.ʁɛ/	assaurait /a.sɔ.ʁɛ/ or /a.so.ʁɛ/	assaurions /a.sɔ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.so.ʁjɔ̃/	assauriez /a.sɔ.ʁje/ or /a.so.ʁje/	assauraient /a.sɔ.ʁɛ/ or /a.so.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	assache /a.saʃ/	assaches /a.saʃ/	assache /a.saʃ/	assachions /a.sa.ʃjɔ̃/	assachiez /a.sa.ʃje/	assachent /a.saʃ/
	imperfect2	assusse /a.sys/	assusses /a.sys/	assût /a.sy/	assussions /a.sy.sjɔ̃/	assussiez /a.sy.sje/	assussent /a.sys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assache /a.saʃ/	—	assachons /a.sa.ʃɔ̃/	assachez /a.sa.ʃe/	—
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

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

Middle French

Etymology

Ultimately from a- +‎ savoir

Verb

assavoir

1. to know