accabler
French
Etymology
From a- + Middle French chabler (“hit (a tree to make the fruit fall)”), from Old French cadable (“catapult”), from Ancient Greek καταβολή (katabolḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ka.ble/, /a.kɑ.ble/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of accabler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accabler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accablant /a.ka.blɑ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accablé /a.ka.ble/ or /a.kɑ.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accable /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accables /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accable /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accablons /a.ka.blɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blɔ̃/ |
accablez /a.ka.ble/ or /a.kɑ.ble/ |
accablent /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
| imperfect | accablais /a.ka.blɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blɛ/ |
accablais /a.ka.blɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blɛ/ |
accablait /a.ka.blɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blɛ/ |
accablions /a.ka.bli.jɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
accabliez /a.ka.bli.je/ or /a.kɑ.bli.je/ |
accablaient /a.ka.blɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accablai /a.ka.ble/ or /a.kɑ.ble/ |
accablas /a.ka.bla/ or /a.kɑ.bla/ |
accabla /a.ka.bla/ or /a.kɑ.bla/ |
accablâmes /a.ka.blam/ or /a.kɑ.blam/ |
accablâtes /a.ka.blat/ or /a.kɑ.blat/ |
accablèrent /a.ka.blɛʁ/ or /a.kɑ.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | accablerai /a.ka.blə.ʁe/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁe/ |
accableras /a.ka.blə.ʁa/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁa/ |
accablera /a.ka.blə.ʁa/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁa/ |
accablerons /a.ka.blə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
accablerez /a.ka.blə.ʁe/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁe/ |
accableront /a.ka.blə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accablerais /a.ka.blə.ʁɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
accablerais /a.ka.blə.ʁɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
accablerait /a.ka.blə.ʁɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
accablerions /a.ka.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accableriez /a.ka.blə.ʁje/ or /a.kɑ.blə.ʁje/ |
accableraient /a.ka.blə.ʁɛ/ or /a.kɑ.blə.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 | accable /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accables /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accable /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
accablions /a.ka.bli.jɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
accabliez /a.ka.bli.je/ or /a.kɑ.bli.je/ |
accablent /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
| imperfect2 | accablasse /a.ka.blas/ or /a.kɑ.blas/ |
accablasses /a.ka.blas/ or /a.kɑ.blas/ |
accablât /a.ka.bla/ or /a.kɑ.bla/ |
accablassions /a.ka.bla.sjɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
accablassiez /a.ka.bla.sje/ or /a.kɑ.bla.sje/ |
accablassent /a.ka.blas/ or /a.kɑ.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accable /a.kabl/ or /a.kɑbl/ |
— | accablons /a.ka.blɔ̃/ or /a.kɑ.blɔ̃/ |
accablez /a.ka.ble/ or /a.kɑ.ble/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “accabler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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