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assurément

assuredly, certainly

adverb ah-sew-reh-MAHN Rare

Usage Note

Assurément is formal and somewhat literary, equivalent to 'certainly' or 'undoubtedly'. In everyday speech it is mostly replaced by certainement, sûrement, or bien sûr. It often opens a sentence as a concessive: Assurément, ce n'est pas facile — 'Admittedly, it is not easy'.

Examples

"Assurément, il a du talent."

Natural Translation

He certainly has talent.

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