gréer

See also: greer and Greer

French

Etymology

From Old Norse greiða. An initial a was added to form Old French agreier by analogy with verbs like abiller. It was later removed, yielding Middle French greer and grayer, to avoid homophony with agreer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁe.e/

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Verb

gréer

1. (transitive, nautical) to rig

Conjugation

Conjugation of gréer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gréer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gréant /ɡʁe.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gréé /ɡʁe.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grée /ɡʁe/	grées /ɡʁe/	grée /ɡʁe/	gréons /ɡʁe.ɔ̃/	gréez /ɡʁe.e/	gréent /ɡʁe/
	imperfect	gréais /ɡʁe.ɛ/	gréais /ɡʁe.ɛ/	gréait /ɡʁe.ɛ/	gréions /ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ or /ɡʁɛj.jɔ̃/	gréiez /ɡʁej.je/ or /ɡʁɛj.je/	gréaient /ɡʁe.ɛ/
	past historic2	gréai /ɡʁe.e/	gréas /ɡʁe.a/	gréa /ɡʁe.a/	gréâmes /ɡʁe.am/	gréâtes /ɡʁe.at/	gréèrent /ɡʁe.ɛʁ/
	future	gréerai /ɡʁe.ʁe/	gréeras /ɡʁe.ʁa/	gréera /ɡʁe.ʁa/	gréerons /ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/	gréerez /ɡʁe.ʁe/	gréeront /ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gréerais /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/	gréerais /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/	gréerait /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/	gréerions /ɡʁe.ʁjɔ̃/	gréeriez /ɡʁe.ʁje/	gréeraient /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/
(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	grée /ɡʁe/	grées /ɡʁe/	grée /ɡʁe/	gréions /ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ or /ɡʁɛj.jɔ̃/	gréiez /ɡʁej.je/ or /ɡʁɛj.je/	gréent /ɡʁe/
	imperfect2	gréasse /ɡʁe.as/	gréasses /ɡʁe.as/	gréât /ɡʁe.a/	gréassions /ɡʁe.a.sjɔ̃/	gréassiez /ɡʁe.a.sje/	gréassent /ɡʁe.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grée /ɡʁe/	—	gréons /ɡʁe.ɔ̃/	gréez /ɡʁe.e/	—
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• agrès

Further reading

• “gréer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.