accéder

See also: acceder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accēdere, present active infinitive of accēdō (“approach; accede”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ak.se.de/
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Verb

accéder

  1. to reach (a place)
  2. to obtain, to achieve, to reach (a goal)
  3. to grant (permission)
  4. to access (information)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written accéder-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written accèder-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of accéder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle accédant
/ak.se.dɑ̃/
past participle accédé
/ak.se.de/
infinitive
simple accéder
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple accédant
/ak.se.dɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present accède
/ak.sɛd/		 accèdes
/ak.sɛd/		 accède
/ak.sɛd/		 accédons
/ak.se.dɔ̃/		 accédez
/ak.se.de/		 accèdent
/ak.sɛd/
imperfect accédais
/ak.se.dɛ/		 accédais
/ak.se.dɛ/		 accédait
/ak.se.dɛ/		 accédions
/ak.se.djɔ̃/		 accédiez
/ak.se.dje/		 accédaient
/ak.se.dɛ/
past historic2 accédai
/ak.se.de/		 accédas
/ak.se.da/		 accéda
/ak.se.da/		 accédâmes
/ak.se.dam/		 accédâtes
/ak.se.dat/		 accédèrent
/ak.se.dɛʁ/
future accèderai or accéderai
/ak.sɛ.dʁe/		 accèderas or accéderas
/ak.sɛ.dʁa/		 accèdera or accédera
/ak.sɛ.dʁa/		 accèderons or accéderons
/ak.sɛ.dʁɔ̃/		 accèderez or accéderez
/ak.sɛ.dʁe/		 accèderont or accéderont
/ak.sɛ.dʁɔ̃/
conditional accèderais or accéderais
/ak.sɛ.dʁɛ/		 accèderais or accéderais
/ak.sɛ.dʁɛ/		 accèderait or accéderait
/ak.sɛ.dʁɛ/		 accèderions or accéderions
/ak.sɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/		 accèderiez or accéderiez
/ak.sɛ.də.ʁje/		 accèderaient or accéderaient
/ak.sɛ.dʁɛ/
(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 accède
/ak.sɛd/		 accèdes
/ak.sɛd/		 accède
/ak.sɛd/		 accédions
/ak.se.djɔ̃/		 accédiez
/ak.se.dje/		 accèdent
/ak.sɛd/
imperfect2 accédasse
/ak.se.das/		 accédasses
/ak.se.das/		 accédât
/ak.se.da/		 accédassions
/ak.se.da.sjɔ̃/		 accédassiez
/ak.se.da.sje/		 accédassent
/ak.se.das/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — accède
/ak.sɛd/		 — accédons
/ak.se.dɔ̃/		 accédez
/ak.se.de/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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