grandir

French

Etymology

From grand +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/

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Verb

grandir

1. (intransitive) to grow, get bigger
2. (intransitive) to grow up

   Vous avez grandi où ? ― Where did you grow up?

3. (transitive) to magnify

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 grandir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grandir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grandissant /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grandi /ɡʁɑ̃.di/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandit /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandissons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/	grandissez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.se/	grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/
	imperfect	grandissais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/	grandissais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/	grandissait /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/	grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/	grandissaient /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/
	past historic2	grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandit /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandîmes /ɡʁɑ̃.dim/	grandîtes /ɡʁɑ̃.dit/	grandirent /ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	grandirai /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/	grandiras /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/	grandira /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/	grandirons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	grandirez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/	grandiront /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grandirais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	grandirais /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	grandirait /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	grandirions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	grandiriez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁje/	grandiraient /ɡʁɑ̃.di.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	grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/	grandisses /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/	grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/	grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/	grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/
	imperfect2	grandisse /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/	grandisses /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/	grandît /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	grandissions /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	grandissiez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/	grandissent /ɡʁɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grandis /ɡʁɑ̃.di/	—	grandissons /ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/	grandissez /ɡʁɑ̃.di.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: 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

• agrandir
• agrandissant
• agrandissement
• grand
• grandifier
• grandissant
• grandissement
• se grandifier

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ringard