assumer
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Noun
assumer (plural assumers)
- 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.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin assūmere, from ad- + sūmō (“to take”).
Pronunciation
Verb
assumer
- (transitive) embrace; accept; own
- assumer ses erreurs
- to embrace one's mistakes
- (transitive) assume (take on a role)
- assumer la responsabilité d’une chose
- to take on responsibility for something
- (pronominal) take responsibility
- Un adolescent devient adulte lorsqu’il peut s’assumer.
- A teenager becomes an adult when he can take responsibility.
- (transitive, Anglicism) synonym of présumer (“to assume; to presume”)
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “assumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012