Inherited from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, acreistre, inherited from Latin accrēscere. By surface analysis, a- + croître.
accroître
This verb is conjugated like croître except that it takes fewer circumflexes than that verb does.
infinitive | simple | accroître | |||||
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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/ |
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 | accrus /a.kʁy/ |
accrus /a.kʁy/ |
accrut /a.kʁy/ |
accrûmes /a.kʁym/ |
accrûtes /a.kʁyt/ |
accrurent /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 | 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |