accroitre

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See also: accroître

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

accroitre

  1. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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