assurer

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English

Etymology

From assure +‎ -er.

Noun

assurer (plural assurers)

  1. An insurer; an underwriter.
  2. One who takes out insurance.
  3. A person who or thing which assures.

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French asseurer, from Old French asseürer, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ sûr +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.sy.ʁe/
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Verb

assurer

  1. to assure, to ensure, to make sure
  2. to do; to take care of; to carry out; to be in charge of
    Des bénévoles assurent le nettoyage des lieux.
    Volunteers take care of the cleaning of the premises.
  3. to insure, to give insurance to
  4. (climbing) to belay

Usage notes

S'assurer que, in the sense of "make sure," takes the indicative mood: Assurez-vous que la porte est bien fermée. The subjunctive is seen at times (Assurez-vous que la porte soit bien fermée), especially where the connotation is that the listener should check and then do the thing if it is not already done, but is generally proscribed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of assurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple assurer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple assurant
/a.sy.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle assuré
/a.sy.ʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present assure
/a.syʁ/ 		assures
/a.syʁ/ 		assure
/a.syʁ/ 		assurons
/a.sy.ʁɔ̃/ 		assurez
/a.sy.ʁe/ 		assurent
/a.syʁ/
imperfect assurais
/a.sy.ʁɛ/ 		assurais
/a.sy.ʁɛ/ 		assurait
/a.sy.ʁɛ/ 		assurions
/a.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ 		assuriez
/a.sy.ʁje/ 		assuraient
/a.sy.ʁɛ/
past historic2 assurai
/a.sy.ʁe/ 		assuras
/a.sy.ʁa/ 		assura
/a.sy.ʁa/ 		assurâmes
/a.sy.ʁam/ 		assurâtes
/a.sy.ʁat/ 		assurèrent
/a.sy.ʁɛʁ/
future assurerai
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ 		assureras
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ 		assurera
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ 		assurerons
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ 		assurerez
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ 		assureront
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional assurerais
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		assurerais
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		assurerait
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ 		assurerions
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		assureriez
/a.sy.ʁə.ʁje/ 		assureraient
/a.sy.ʁə.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 assure
/a.syʁ/ 		assures
/a.syʁ/ 		assure
/a.syʁ/ 		assurions
/a.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ 		assuriez
/a.sy.ʁje/ 		assurent
/a.syʁ/
imperfect2 assurasse
/a.sy.ʁas/ 		assurasses
/a.sy.ʁas/ 		assurât
/a.sy.ʁa/ 		assurassions
/a.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		assurassiez
/a.sy.ʁa.sje/ 		assurassent
/a.sy.ʁas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — assure
/a.syʁ/ 		— assurons
/a.sy.ʁɔ̃/ 		assurez
/a.sy.ʁe/ 		—
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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Descendants

  • → Danish: assurere
  • → Romanian: asigura (partial calque)

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