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agrandir
agrandir
French
Verb
agrandir
- (transitive) To enlarge, make bigger.
- (transitive) To extend (a house, building, area).
- (reflexive) To grow, get bigger.
- to embiggen.
- to aggrandize.
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of agrandir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | agrandir | avoir agrandi | |||||
| gerund | en agrandissant | en ayant agrandi | |||||
| present participle | agrandissant /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | agrandi /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandit /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandissons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
agrandissez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.se/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect | agrandissais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissait /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissaient /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandit /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandîmes /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dim/ |
agrandîtes /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dit/ |
agrandirent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/ |
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| future | agrandirai /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
agrandiras /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
agrandira /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
agrandirons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
agrandirez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
agrandiront /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | agrandirais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirait /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agrandiriez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁje/ |
agrandiraient /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisses /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect1 |
agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisses /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandît /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
— | agrandissons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
agrandissez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.se/ |
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