assumer
French, verb/a.sy.me/
assumer is spelled A-S-S-U-M-E-R (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Assumer is a French verb meaning “embrace; accept; own” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre pour soi un acte ou une réalité qui vient de soi et qui est difficile à accepter”.
What does assumer mean in English?
verb
- 1
embrace; accept; own
assumer ses erreurs
- 2
assume (take on a role)
assumer la responsabilité d’une chose
- 3
take responsibility
Un adolescent devient adulte lorsqu’il peut s’assumer.
- 4
synonym of présumer (“to assume; to presume”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre pour soi un acte ou une réalité qui vient de soi et qui est difficile à accepter. 2. Déclarer prendre à son compte et ne pas renier ce qui vient d’être évoqué, généralement une décision, une position ou un comportement contesté. 3. Prendre en charge une responsabilité, une tâche, un état qui, normalement, revient à un autre. 4. Se prendre en charge.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of assumer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- assumant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- assumé participle past
- assume first-person indicative present
- assumes indicative present second-person
- assumons first-person indicative plural
- assumez indicative plural present
- assument indicative plural present
- assumais first-person imperfect indicative
- assumait imperfect indicative singular
- assumions first-person imperfect indicative
- assumiez imperfect indicative plural
- assumaient imperfect indicative plural
- assumai first-person historic indicative
- assumas historic indicative past
- assuma historic indicative past
- assumâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce assumer?
- /a.sy.me/
- \a.sy.me\
- [a.sy.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to assumer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is assumer in French?
assumer appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).