accompagner

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French acompagner (“to associate with”), from compaing (“companion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/

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Verb

accompagner

1. (transitive) to accompany, to escort

Conjugation

Conjugation of accompagner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accompagner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accompagnant /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accompagné /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagnes /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagnons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/	accompagnez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/	accompagnent /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/
	imperfect	accompagnais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	accompagnais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	accompagnait /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	accompagnions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/	accompagniez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/	accompagnaient /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	accompagnai /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/	accompagnas /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	accompagna /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	accompagnâmes /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲam/	accompagnâtes /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲat/	accompagnèrent /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛʁ/
	future	accompagnerai /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/	accompagneras /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/	accompagnera /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/	accompagnerons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	accompagnerez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/	accompagneront /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accompagnerais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	accompagnerais /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	accompagnerait /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	accompagnerions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	accompagneriez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁje/	accompagneraient /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.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	accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagnes /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	accompagnions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/	accompagniez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/	accompagnent /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/
	imperfect2	accompagnasse /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/	accompagnasses /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/	accompagnât /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	accompagnassions /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	accompagnassiez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sje/	accompagnassent /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accompagne /a.kɔ̃.paɲ/	—	accompagnons /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/	accompagnez /a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• raccompagne, raccompagné