croitre
See also: croître
French
Verb
croitre
- Alternative spelling of croître
Usage notes
- This spelling was a product of the 1990 French spelling reforms.
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 croitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | croitre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | croissant /kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crû /kʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | crûs /kʁy/ |
crûs /kʁy/ |
crût /kʁy/ |
crûmes /kʁym/ |
crûtes /kʁyt/ |
crûrent /kʁyʁ/ | |
| future | croitrai /kʁwa.tʁe/ |
croitras /kʁwa.tʁa/ |
croitra /kʁwa.tʁa/ |
croitrons /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
croitrez /kʁwa.tʁe/ |
croitront /kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | croitrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croitrais /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croitrait /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
croitrions /kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
croitriez /kʁwa.tʁi.je/ |
croitraient /kʁwa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | croisse /kʁwas/ |
croisses /kʁwas/ |
croisse /kʁwas/ |
croissions /kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
croissiez /kʁwa.sje/ |
croissent /kʁwas/ |
| imperfect2 | crûsse /kʁys/ |
crûsses /kʁys/ |
crût /kʁy/ |
crûssions /kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
crûssiez /kʁy.sje/ |
crûssent /kʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | croîs /kʁwa/ |
— | croissons /kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
croissez /kʁwa.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “croitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.