assurer

English

Etymology

Fromassure+‎-er.

Noun

assurer(pluralassurers)

1. Aninsurer;anunderwriter.
2. One who takes outinsurance.
3. A person who or thing whichassures.

Anagrams

• Rausers,rasures

French

Etymology

InheritedfromMiddle Frenchasseurer,fromOld Frenchasseürer,fromVulgar Latin*assēcūrāre,fromLatinsēcūrus(“safe”).Bysurface analysis,a-+‎sûr+‎-er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/a.sy.ʁe/

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Verb

assurer

1. toassure,toensure,tomake sure
2. to do; totake care of;tocarry out;to bein charge of

   Des bénévolesassurentle nettoyage des lieux.

   Volunteerstake care ofthe cleaning of the premises.

3. toinsure,to giveinsuranceto
4. (climbing)tobelay

Usage notes

S'assurer que,in the sense of "make sure," takes the indicative mood:Assurez-vous que la porte est bien fermée.[1]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 generallyproscribed.

Conjugation

Conjugation ofassurer(see alsoAppendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assurer
	compound	avoir+ past participle
present participleorgerund1	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 ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative ofavoir+ past participle
	past anterior2	past historic ofavoir+ past participle
	future perfect	future ofavoir+ past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional ofavoir+ 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 ofavoir+ past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive ofavoir+ past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assure /a.syʁ/	—	assurons /a.sy.ʁɔ̃/	assurez /a.sy.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	simple imperative ofavoir+ past participle	—
1The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen.
2In 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 [1995],Master the Basics: French,pp.77,78,79,81).

Derived terms

• assurer ses arrières

Related terms

• assurance
• assureur

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “assurer”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Anagrams

• raseurs,rassure,rassuré