acculer

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French

Etymology

From a- +‎ cul +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

acculer

  1. (transitive) to corner someone, to prevent retreat or escape
    • 2009 January 23, Marie-Claude Decamps, “Ambiguïtés iraniennes”, in Le Monde‎:
      Une petite frange de fondamentalistes, plus radicaux encore que le président, ont peur que si Obama les accule par trop d’ouverture à ouvrir eux aussi le régime, tout leur échappe des mains.
      A small fringe of fundamentalists, even more radical than the president, were afraid that if Obama were to corner them by being too open to opening the regime themselves, everything would slip out of their hands.

Conjugation

Conjugation of acculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple acculer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple acculant
/a.ky.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle acculé
/a.ky.le/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present accule
/a.kyl/ 		accules
/a.kyl/ 		accule
/a.kyl/ 		acculons
/a.ky.lɔ̃/ 		acculez
/a.ky.le/ 		acculent
/a.kyl/
imperfect acculais
/a.ky.lɛ/ 		acculais
/a.ky.lɛ/ 		acculait
/a.ky.lɛ/ 		acculions
/a.ky.ljɔ̃/ 		acculiez
/a.ky.lje/ 		acculaient
/a.ky.lɛ/
past historic2 acculai
/a.ky.le/ 		acculas
/a.ky.la/ 		accula
/a.ky.la/ 		acculâmes
/a.ky.lam/ 		acculâtes
/a.ky.lat/ 		acculèrent
/a.ky.lɛʁ/
future acculerai
/a.kyl.ʁe/ 		acculeras
/a.kyl.ʁa/ 		acculera
/a.kyl.ʁa/ 		acculerons
/a.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ 		acculerez
/a.kyl.ʁe/ 		acculeront
/a.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
conditional acculerais
/a.kyl.ʁɛ/ 		acculerais
/a.kyl.ʁɛ/ 		acculerait
/a.kyl.ʁɛ/ 		acculerions
/a.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		acculeriez
/a.ky.lə.ʁje/ 		acculeraient
/a.kyl.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 accule
/a.kyl/ 		accules
/a.kyl/ 		accule
/a.kyl/ 		acculions
/a.ky.ljɔ̃/ 		acculiez
/a.ky.lje/ 		acculent
/a.kyl/
imperfect2 acculasse
/a.ky.las/ 		acculasses
/a.ky.las/ 		acculât
/a.ky.la/ 		acculassions
/a.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ 		acculassiez
/a.ky.la.sje/ 		acculassent
/a.ky.las/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — accule
/a.kyl/ 		— acculons
/a.ky.lɔ̃/ 		acculez
/a.ky.le/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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