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accroître
accroître
See also: accroitre
French
Alternative forms
- accroitre (1990 spelling reform)
Verb
accroître
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | accroître | avoir accrû | |||||
| gerund | en accroissant | en ayant accrû | |||||
| present participle | accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | accrû /a.kʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | accrûs /a.kʁy/ |
accrûs /a.kʁy/ |
accrût /a.kʁy/ |
accrûmes /a.kʁym/ |
accrûtes /a.kʁyt/ |
accrûrent /a.kʁyʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accroisse /a.kʁwas/ |
accroisses /a.kʁwas/ |
accroisse /a.kʁwas/ |
accroissions /a.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
accroissiez /a.kʁwa.sje/ |
accroissent /a.kʁwas/ |
| imperfect1 |
accrûsse /a.kʁys/ |
accrûsses /a.kʁys/ |
accrût /a.kʁy/ |
accrûssions /a.kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
accrûssiez /a.kʁy.sje/ |
accrûssent /a.kʁys/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | accrois /a.kʁwa/ |
— | accroissons /a.kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
accroissez /a.kʁwa.se/ |
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