accroître
See also: accroitre
French
Alternative forms
- accroitre (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
From Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, present active infinitive of accrescō. Synchronically analysable as a- + croître.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.kʁwatʁ/
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like croître except that it takes fewer circumflexes than that verb does.
Conjugation of accroître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | accrû /a.kʁy/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | accroître | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | accrois /a.kʁwa/ |
accrois /a.kʁwa/ |
accroît /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 | accrûs /a.kʁy/ |
accrûs /a.kʁy/ |
accrût /a.kʁy/ |
accrûmes /a.kʁym/ |
accrûtes /a.kʁyt/ |
accrûrent /a.kʁyʁ/ | |
| future | accroîtrai /a.kʁwa.tʁe/ |
accroîtras /a.kʁwa.tʁa/ |
accroîtra /a.kʁwa.tʁa/ |
accroîtrons /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
accroîtrez /a.kʁwa.tʁe/ |
accroîtront /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | accroîtrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
accroîtrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
accroîtrait /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
accroîtrions /a.kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
accroîtriez /a.kʁwa.tʁi.je/ |
accroîtraient /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 | accrûsse /a.kʁys/ |
accrûsses /a.kʁys/ |
accrût /a.kʁy/ |
accrûssions /a.kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
accrûssiez /a.kʁy.sje/ |
accrûssent /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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “accroître” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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