assurer

English

Etymology

From assure +‎ -er.

Noun

assurer (plural assurers)

1. An insurer; an underwriter.
2. One who takes out insurance.
3. A person who or thing which assures.

Anagrams

• Rausers, rasures

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French asseurer, from Old French asseürer, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ sûr +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sy.ʁe/

• Audio:

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Verb

assurer

1. to assure, to ensure, to make sure
2. to do; to take care of; to carry out; to be in charge of

   Des bénévoles assurent le nettoyage des lieux.

   Volunteers take care of the cleaning of the premises.

3. to insure, to give insurance to
4. (climbing) to belay

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 generally proscribed.

Conjugation

Conjugation of assurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	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 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	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 of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assure /a.syʁ/	—	assurons /a.sy.ʁɔ̃/	assurez /a.sy.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• assurer ses arrières

Related terms

• assurance
• assureur

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• raseurs, rassure, rassuré