croître
See also: croitre
French
Alternative forms
- croitre (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
From Middle French croistre, from Old French croistre, creistre, from Latin crēscere, present active infinitive of crēscō, from Proto-Italic *krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow, become bigger”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁwatʁ/, /kʁwɑtʁ/
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Verb
croître
- to grow
- Antonym: décroître
Conjugation
This verb takes an especially irregular conjugation, taking circumflexes in many forms, so as to distinguish from the forms of the verb croire.
Conjugation of croître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | croître | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | croissant /kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crû /kʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | croîs /kʁwa/ | croîs /kʁwa/ | croît /kʁwa/ | croissons /kʁwa.sɔ̃/ | croissez /kʁwa.se/ | croissent /kʁwas/ |
| imperfect | croissais /kʁwa.sɛ/ | croissais /kʁwa.sɛ/ | croissait /kʁwa.sɛ/ | croissions /kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ | croissiez /kʁwa.sje/ | croissaient /kʁwa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crûs /kʁy/ | crûs /kʁy/ | crût /kʁy/ | crûmes /kʁym/ | crûtes /kʁyt/ | crûrent /kʁyʁ/ | |
| future | croîtrai /kʁwa.tʁe/ | croîtras /kʁwa.tʁa/ | croîtra /kʁwa.tʁa/ | croîtrons /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | croîtrez /kʁwa.tʁe/ | croîtront /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | croîtrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | croîtrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | croîtrait /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | croîtrions /kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | croîtriez /kʁwa.tʁi.je/ | croîtraient /kʁwa.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 | croisse /kʁwas/ | croisses /kʁwas/ | croisse /kʁwas/ | croissions /kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ | croissiez /kʁwa.sje/ | croissent /kʁwas/ |
| imperfect2 | crûsse /kʁys/ | crûsses /kʁys/ | crût /kʁy/ | crûssions /kʁy.sjɔ̃/ | crûssiez /kʁy.sje/ | crûssent /kʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | croîs /kʁwa/ | — | croissons /kʁwa.sɔ̃/ | croissez /kʁwa.se/ | — | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- croissance
- croissant
Further reading
- “croître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.