accoucher
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]accoucher
- (intransitive) to go into labour
- (transitive) to give birth to, to deliver (a baby) [with de ‘quelqu'un’]
- Synonyms: mettre au monde, donner naissance
- Elle a accouché d’un petit garçon.
- She gave birth to a little boy.
- (transitive) to help someone deliver (a baby)
- Elle accouchait les mères.
- She used to help mothers give birth.
- (transitive) to come up with [with de ‘quelque chose’]
- Il a accouché d’une merveilleuse idée.
- He came up with a wonderful idea.
- (intransitive, slang) to say, tell something that one (tried to) hid beforehand
- Synonyms: balancer, cracher le morceau
- Allez, accouche ! On va rien te faire.
- Come on, say it! We won't do nothing to you.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of accoucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accoucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accouchant /a.ku.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accouché /a.ku.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accouche /a.kuʃ/ |
accouches /a.kuʃ/ |
accouche /a.kuʃ/ |
accouchons /a.ku.ʃɔ̃/ |
accouchez /a.ku.ʃe/ |
accouchent /a.kuʃ/ |
| imperfect | accouchais /a.ku.ʃɛ/ |
accouchais /a.ku.ʃɛ/ |
accouchait /a.ku.ʃɛ/ |
accouchions /a.ku.ʃjɔ̃/ |
accouchiez /a.ku.ʃje/ |
accouchaient /a.ku.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accouchai /a.ku.ʃe/ |
accouchas /a.ku.ʃa/ |
accoucha /a.ku.ʃa/ |
accouchâmes /a.ku.ʃam/ |
accouchâtes /a.ku.ʃat/ |
accouchèrent /a.ku.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | accoucherai /a.kuʃ.ʁe/ |
accoucheras /a.kuʃ.ʁa/ |
accouchera /a.kuʃ.ʁa/ |
accoucherons /a.kuʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
accoucherez /a.kuʃ.ʁe/ |
accoucheront /a.kuʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accoucherais /a.kuʃ.ʁɛ/ |
accoucherais /a.kuʃ.ʁɛ/ |
accoucherait /a.kuʃ.ʁɛ/ |
accoucherions /a.ku.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accoucheriez /a.ku.ʃə.ʁje/ |
accoucheraient /a.kuʃ.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 | accouche /a.kuʃ/ |
accouches /a.kuʃ/ |
accouche /a.kuʃ/ |
accouchions /a.ku.ʃjɔ̃/ |
accouchiez /a.ku.ʃje/ |
accouchent /a.kuʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | accouchasse /a.ku.ʃas/ |
accouchasses /a.ku.ʃas/ |
accouchât /a.ku.ʃa/ |
accouchassions /a.ku.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
accouchassiez /a.ku.ʃa.sje/ |
accouchassent /a.ku.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accouche /a.kuʃ/ |
— | accouchons /a.ku.ʃɔ̃/ |
accouchez /a.ku.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “accoucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.