agréer
See also: agreer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ɡʁe.e/
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Etymology 1
From Middle French agreer (“to accept, receive, admit, welcome”), from Old French agreer (“to consent, approve, be grateful”), from a- + gré (“consent, permission, will”). Compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish agradar.
Verb
agréer
- (formal) to accept
- Veuillez agréer l'expression de mes sentiments respectueux.
- Yours respectfully (formal closing of a letter)
- Veuillez agréer l'expression de mes sentiments respectueux.
Conjugation
Conjugation of agréer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | agréant /a.ɡʁe.ɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | agréé /a.ɡʁe.e/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | agréer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | agréant /a.ɡʁe.ɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | agrée /a.ɡʁe/ |
agrées /a.ɡʁe/ |
agrée /a.ɡʁe/ |
agréons /a.ɡʁe.ɔ̃/ |
agréez /a.ɡʁe.e/ |
agréent /a.ɡʁe/ |
| imperfect | agréais /a.ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
agréais /a.ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
agréait /a.ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
agréions /a.ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ |
agréiez /a.ɡʁej.je/ |
agréaient /a.ɡʁe.ɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | agréai /a.ɡʁe.e/ |
agréas /a.ɡʁe.a/ |
agréa /a.ɡʁe.a/ |
agréâmes /a.ɡʁe.am/ |
agréâtes /a.ɡʁe.at/ |
agréèrent /a.ɡʁe.ɛʁ/ | |
| future | agréerai /a.ɡʁe.ʁe/ |
agréeras /a.ɡʁe.ʁa/ |
agréera /a.ɡʁe.ʁa/ |
agréerons /a.ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/ |
agréerez /a.ɡʁe.ʁe/ |
agréeront /a.ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | agréerais /a.ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
agréerais /a.ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
agréerait /a.ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
agréerions /a.ɡʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agréeriez /a.ɡʁe.ʁje/ |
agréeraient /a.ɡʁe.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 | agrée /a.ɡʁe/ |
agrées /a.ɡʁe/ |
agrée /a.ɡʁe/ |
agréions /a.ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ |
agréiez /a.ɡʁej.je/ |
agréent /a.ɡʁe/ |
| imperfect2 | agréasse /a.ɡʁe.as/ |
agréasses /a.ɡʁe.as/ |
agréât /a.ɡʁe.a/ |
agréassions /a.ɡʁe.a.sjɔ̃/ |
agréassiez /a.ɡʁe.a.sje/ |
agréassent /a.ɡʁe.as/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | agrée /a.ɡʁe/ |
— | agréons /a.ɡʁe.ɔ̃/ |
agréez /a.ɡʁe.e/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle French agreer (“to equip”), from Anglo-Norman agreier (“to equip, equip a ship with tackle”), from a- + *greier, from Old Norse greida (“to put in order, prepare, arrange”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to prepare, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to put in order, make comfortable”). Cognate with Old English ġerǣdan (“to arrange, assist”), Middle High German gereiten (“to arrange, prepare”), Middle Dutch gereide (“equipment, harness”). More at ready.
Further reading
- “agréer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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