escorter

French

Etymology

From escorte +‎ -er, ultimately borrowed from Italian scortare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/

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Verb

escorter

1. to escort
2. to accompany
   • 10 December 2022, “Angleterre-France : le king Giroud délivre des Bleus qui filent en demi-finale de la Coupe du monde”, in Le Figaro:

     Le rêve se poursuit et avec lui les espoirs les plus fous l'escortent.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of escorter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	escorter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	escortant /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		escorté /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/	escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/	escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/
	imperfect	escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/	escortais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/	escortait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/	escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/	escortaient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	escortai /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/	escortas /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/	escorta /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/	escortâmes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tam/	escortâtes /ɛs.kɔʁ.tat/	escortèrent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	escorterai /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	escorteras /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	escortera /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	escorterons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	escorterez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	escorteront /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	escorterais /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	escorterait /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	escorterions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	escorteriez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.ʁje/	escorteraient /ɛs.kɔʁ.tə.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	escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escortes /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/	escortions /ɛs.kɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	escortiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.tje/	escortent /ɛs.kɔʁt/
	imperfect2	escortasse /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/	escortasses /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/	escortât /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta/	escortassions /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	escortassiez /ɛs.kɔʁ.ta.sje/	escortassent /ɛs.kɔʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	escorte /ɛs.kɔʁt/	—	escortons /ɛs.kɔʁ.tɔ̃/	escortez /ɛs.kɔʁ.te/	—
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: 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).

Further reading

• “escorter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• corseter