assumer

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English

Etymology

assume +‎ -er

Noun

assumer (plural assumers)

  1. One who assumes.
    • 1987, Jerald C. Brauer, The Lively Experiment Continued, page 231:
      […] and in the context of a grotesque caricature of what the discipline of history is all about for which I would flunk an undergraduate, this self-chosen assumer of the mantle of Amos candidly detailed what was left out of his analysis.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin assūmere, from ad- + sūmō (“to take”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (v) /a.sy.me/
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Verb

assumer

  1. (transitive) embrace; accept; own
    assumer ses erreurs
    to embrace one's mistakes
  2. (transitive) assume (take on a role)
    assumer la responsabilité d’une chose
    to take on responsibility for something
  3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) take responsibility
    Un adolescent devient adulte lorsqu’il peut s’assumer.
    A teenager becomes an adult when he can take responsibility.
  4. (transitive, proscribed) Synonym of présumer (“to assume; to presume”); considered an Anglicism.

Conjugation

Conjugation of assumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple assumer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple assumant
/a.sy.mɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle assumé
/a.sy.me/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present assume
/a.sym/ 		assumes
/a.sym/ 		assume
/a.sym/ 		assumons
/a.sy.mɔ̃/ 		assumez
/a.sy.me/ 		assument
/a.sym/
imperfect assumais
/a.sy.mɛ/ 		assumais
/a.sy.mɛ/ 		assumait
/a.sy.mɛ/ 		assumions
/a.sy.mjɔ̃/ 		assumiez
/a.sy.mje/ 		assumaient
/a.sy.mɛ/
past historic2 assumai
/a.sy.me/ 		assumas
/a.sy.ma/ 		assuma
/a.sy.ma/ 		assumâmes
/a.sy.mam/ 		assumâtes
/a.sy.mat/ 		assumèrent
/a.sy.mɛʁ/
future assumerai
/a.sym.ʁe/ 		assumeras
/a.sym.ʁa/ 		assumera
/a.sym.ʁa/ 		assumerons
/a.sym.ʁɔ̃/ 		assumerez
/a.sym.ʁe/ 		assumeront
/a.sym.ʁɔ̃/
conditional assumerais
/a.sym.ʁɛ/ 		assumerais
/a.sym.ʁɛ/ 		assumerait
/a.sym.ʁɛ/ 		assumerions
/a.sy.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		assumeriez
/a.sy.mə.ʁje/ 		assumeraient
/a.sym.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 assume
/a.sym/ 		assumes
/a.sym/ 		assume
/a.sym/ 		assumions
/a.sy.mjɔ̃/ 		assumiez
/a.sy.mje/ 		assument
/a.sym/
imperfect2 assumasse
/a.sy.mas/ 		assumasses
/a.sy.mas/ 		assumât
/a.sy.ma/ 		assumassions
/a.sy.ma.sjɔ̃/ 		assumassiez
/a.sy.ma.sje/ 		assumassent
/a.sy.mas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — assume
/a.sym/ 		— assumons
/a.sy.mɔ̃/ 		assumez
/a.sy.me/ 		—
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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