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accroitre
accroitre
See also: accroître
French
Verb
accroitre
- Alternative form 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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | accroitre | avoir accru | |||||
| gerund | en accroissant | en ayant accru | |||||
| present participle | accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | accru /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/ |
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/ |
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| past historic1 | accrus /a.kʁy/ |
accrus /a.kʁy/ |
accrut /a.kʁy/ |
accrûmes /a.kʁym/ |
accrûtes /a.kʁyt/ |
accrurent /a.kʁyʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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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 |
accrusse /a.kʁys/ |
accrusses /a.kʁys/ |
accrût /a.kʁy/ |
accrussions /a.kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
accrussiez /a.kʁy.sje/ |
accrussent /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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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Usage notes
This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.