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croître
croître
See also: croitre
French
Alternative forms
- croitre (1990 French spelling reforms)
Verb
croître
- to grow
Conjugation
This verb takes an especially irregular conjugation, taking circumflexes in many forms, so as to distinguish from the forms of the verb croire.
Conjugation of croître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | croître | avoir crû | |||||
| gerund | en croissant | en ayant crû | |||||
| present participle | croissant /kʁwa.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | crû /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 | croîs /kʁwa/ |
croîs /kʁwa/ |
croît /kʁwa/ |
croissons /kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
croissez /kʁwa.se/ |
croissent /kʁwas/ |
| imperfect | croissais /kʁwa.sɛ/ |
croissais /kʁwa.sɛ/ |
croissait /kʁwa.sɛ/ |
croissions /kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
croissiez /kʁwa.sje/ |
croissaient /kʁwa.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | crûs /kʁy/ |
crûs /kʁy/ |
crût /kʁy/ |
crûmes /kʁym/ |
crûtes /kʁyt/ |
crûrent /kʁyʁ/ |
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| future | croîtrai /kʁwa.tʁe/ |
croîtras /kʁwa.tʁa/ |
croîtra /kʁwa.tʁa/ |
croîtrons /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
croîtrez /kʁwa.tʁe/ |
croîtront /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | croîtrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croîtrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croîtrait /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croîtrions /kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
croîtriez /kʁwa.tʁi.je/ |
croîtraient /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 | croisse /kʁwas/ |
croisses /kʁwas/ |
croisse /kʁwas/ |
croissions /kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
croissiez /kʁwa.sje/ |
croissent /kʁwas/ |
| imperfect1 |
crûsse /kʁys/ |
crûsses /kʁys/ |
crût /kʁy/ |
crûssions /kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
crûssiez /kʁy.sje/ |
crûssent /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 | – | |
| — | croîs /kʁwa/ |
— | croissons /kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
croissez /kʁwa.se/ |
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