acclimater

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ climat +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kli.ma.te/

• Audio; “s'acclimater”:

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Verb

acclimater

1. to acclimatize (get used to a new climate)

Conjugation

Conjugation of acclimater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acclimater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	acclimatant /a.kli.ma.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acclimaté /a.kli.ma.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	acclimate /a.kli.mat/	acclimates /a.kli.mat/	acclimate /a.kli.mat/	acclimatons /a.kli.ma.tɔ̃/	acclimatez /a.kli.ma.te/	acclimatent /a.kli.mat/
	imperfect	acclimatais /a.kli.ma.tɛ/	acclimatais /a.kli.ma.tɛ/	acclimatait /a.kli.ma.tɛ/	acclimations /a.kli.ma.tjɔ̃/	acclimatiez /a.kli.ma.tje/	acclimataient /a.kli.ma.tɛ/
	past historic2	acclimatai /a.kli.ma.te/	acclimatas /a.kli.ma.ta/	acclimata /a.kli.ma.ta/	acclimatâmes /a.kli.ma.tam/	acclimatâtes /a.kli.ma.tat/	acclimatèrent /a.kli.ma.tɛʁ/
	future	acclimaterai /a.kli.ma.tʁe/	acclimateras /a.kli.ma.tʁa/	acclimatera /a.kli.ma.tʁa/	acclimaterons /a.kli.ma.tʁɔ̃/	acclimaterez /a.kli.ma.tʁe/	acclimateront /a.kli.ma.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acclimaterais /a.kli.ma.tʁɛ/	acclimaterais /a.kli.ma.tʁɛ/	acclimaterait /a.kli.ma.tʁɛ/	acclimaterions /a.kli.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	acclimateriez /a.kli.ma.tə.ʁje/	acclimateraient /a.kli.ma.tʁɛ/
(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	acclimate /a.kli.mat/	acclimates /a.kli.mat/	acclimate /a.kli.mat/	acclimations /a.kli.ma.tjɔ̃/	acclimatiez /a.kli.ma.tje/	acclimatent /a.kli.mat/
	imperfect2	acclimatasse /a.kli.ma.tas/	acclimatasses /a.kli.ma.tas/	acclimatât /a.kli.ma.ta/	acclimatassions /a.kli.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/	acclimatassiez /a.kli.ma.ta.sje/	acclimatassent /a.kli.ma.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	acclimate /a.kli.mat/	—	acclimatons /a.kli.ma.tɔ̃/	acclimatez /a.kli.ma.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

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