grandir
French
Etymology
grand + -ir
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/
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Verb
grandir
- (intransitive) to grow, get bigger
- (intransitive) to grow up
- Vous avez grandi où ? ― Where did you grow up?
- (transitive) to magnify
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of grandir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grandir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | grandissant /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | grandi /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandit /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandissons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ | grandissez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.se/ | grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect | grandissais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | grandissais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | grandissait /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ | grandissaient /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandit /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandîmes /ɡʁɑ̃.dim/ | grandîtes /ɡʁɑ̃.dit/ | grandirent /ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | grandirai /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ | grandiras /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ | grandira /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ | grandirons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | grandirez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ | grandiront /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grandirais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | grandirais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | grandirait /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | grandirions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | grandiriez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁje/ | grandiraient /ɡʁɑ̃.di.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 | grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | grandisses /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ | grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | grandisses /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | grandît /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ | grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ | grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | — | grandissons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ | grandissez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.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
- agrandir
- agrandissant
- agrandissement
- grand
- grandifier
- grandissant
- grandissement
- se grandifier
Further reading
- “grandir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ringard