accroitre
See also: accroître
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
accroitre
- post-1990 spelling of accroître
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like croitre except that it does not take circumflexes like that verb does.
Conjugation of accroitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | accroitre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | accru /a.kʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | accrois /a.kʁwa/ | accrois /a.kʁwa/ | accroit /a.kʁwa/ | accroissons /a.kʁwa.sɔ̃/ | accroissez /a.kʁwa.se/ | accroissent /a.kʁwas/ |
| imperfect | accroissais /a.kʁwa.sɛ/ | accroissais /a.kʁwa.sɛ/ | accroissait /a.kʁwa.sɛ/ | accroissions /a.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ | accroissiez /a.kʁwa.sje/ | accroissaient /a.kʁwa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | accrus /a.kʁy/ | accrus /a.kʁy/ | accrut /a.kʁy/ | accrûmes /a.kʁym/ | accrûtes /a.kʁyt/ | accrurent /a.kʁyʁ/ | |
| future | accroitrai /a.kʁwa.tʁe/ | accroitras /a.kʁwa.tʁa/ | accroitra /a.kʁwa.tʁa/ | accroitrons /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | accroitrez /a.kʁwa.tʁe/ | accroitront /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accroitrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | accroitrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | accroitrait /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | accroitrions /a.kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | accroitriez /a.kʁwa.tʁi.je/ | accroitraient /a.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 | accroisse /a.kʁwas/ | accroisses /a.kʁwas/ | accroisse /a.kʁwas/ | accroissions /a.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ | accroissiez /a.kʁwa.sje/ | accroissent /a.kʁwas/ |
| imperfect2 | accrusse /a.kʁys/ | accrusses /a.kʁys/ | accrût /a.kʁy/ | accrussions /a.kʁy.sjɔ̃/ | accrussiez /a.kʁy.sje/ | accrussent /a.kʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | accrois /a.kʁwa/ | — | accroissons /a.kʁwa.sɔ̃/ | accroissez /a.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “accroitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.