accroître

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See also: accroitre

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, acreistre, inherited from Latin accrēscere. By surface analysis, a- +‎ croître.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kʁwatʁ/
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Verb

accroître

  1. (transitive) to increase
    • 2012, Réaliser le changement, Congress of the French Socialist Party:
      Au cœur du modèle néolibéral, le libre-échange sans précaution a accru le phénomène des délocalisations.
      Rash free trade, at the heart of the neoliberal model, has increased the phenomenon of relocations.
  2. (reflexive, s'accroître) to increase, to grow
    • c. 1918—1920, Henri Louatron, À la messe noire ou le Luciférisme existe, Mamers (Sarthe): vanity press, page 39:
      Depuis 1870 le nombre des insulteurs du Dieu des chrétiens s’est accru d’une dizaine de millions ; vous le constatiez vous-même l’an dernier.
      Since 1870, the number of blasphemers of the Christians' God has increased by some ten million; you noticed it yourself last year.

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)
infinitive simple accroître
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 – 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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