raccompagner

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ accompagner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/

• Audio (Lyon):

  (file)

Verb

raccompagner

1. (transitive) to walk back, to take back, to drive back (to escort someone back to where they came from)

   raccompagner quelqu’un à la sortie ― to see someone to the door, to see someone out

   Il la raccompagna jusqu’à sa voiture et l’embrassa tendrement. ― He walked her back to her car and kissed her tenderly.

   Il m’a raccompagnée chez moi. ― He saw me back home.

Conjugation

Conjugation of raccompagner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raccompagner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raccompagnant /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raccompagné /ʁa.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	raccompagne /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagnes /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagne /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagnons /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/	raccompagnez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/	raccompagnent /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/
	imperfect	raccompagnais /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	raccompagnais /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	raccompagnait /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/	raccompagnions /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/	raccompagniez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/	raccompagnaient /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	raccompagnai /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe/	raccompagnas /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	raccompagna /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	raccompagnâmes /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲam/	raccompagnâtes /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲat/	raccompagnèrent /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɛʁ/
	future	raccompagnerai /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/	raccompagneras /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/	raccompagnera /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁa/	raccompagnerons /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	raccompagnerez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁe/	raccompagneront /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raccompagnerais /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	raccompagnerais /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	raccompagnerait /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁɛ/	raccompagnerions /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	raccompagneriez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲə.ʁje/	raccompagneraient /ʁa.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	raccompagne /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagnes /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagne /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	raccompagnions /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲjɔ̃/	raccompagniez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲje/	raccompagnent /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/
	imperfect2	raccompagnasse /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/	raccompagnasses /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/	raccompagnât /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa/	raccompagnassions /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	raccompagnassiez /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲa.sje/	raccompagnassent /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raccompagne /ʁa.kɔ̃.paɲ/	—	raccompagnons /ʁa.kɔ̃.pa.ɲɔ̃/	raccompagnez /ʁa.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

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