recroître
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See also: recroitre
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested in Old French as recrestre, from re- + croître.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
recroître
- to reincrease; to reaugment
Conjugation[edit]
This verb takes an especially irregular conjugation, taking circumflexes in many forms, so as to distinguish from the forms of the verb recroire.
Conjugation of recroître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | recroître | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | recroissant /ʁə.kʁwa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | recrû /ʁə.kʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | recroîs /ʁə.kʁwa/ |
recroîs /ʁə.kʁwa/ |
recroît /ʁə.kʁwa/ |
recroissons /ʁə.kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
recroissez /ʁə.kʁwa.se/ |
recroissent /ʁə.kʁwas/ |
| imperfect | recroissais /ʁə.kʁwa.sɛ/ |
recroissais /ʁə.kʁwa.sɛ/ |
recroissait /ʁə.kʁwa.sɛ/ |
recroissions /ʁə.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
recroissiez /ʁə.kʁwa.sje/ |
recroissaient /ʁə.kʁwa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recrûs /ʁə.kʁy/ |
recrûs /ʁə.kʁy/ |
recrût /ʁə.kʁy/ |
recrûmes /ʁə.kʁym/ |
recrûtes /ʁə.kʁyt/ |
recrûrent /ʁə.kʁyʁ/ | |
| future | recroîtrai /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁe/ |
recroîtras /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁa/ |
recroîtra /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁa/ |
recroîtrons /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
recroîtrez /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁe/ |
recroîtront /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | recroîtrais /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
recroîtrais /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
recroîtrait /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
recroîtrions /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
recroîtriez /ʁə.kʁwa.tʁi.je/ |
recroîtraient /ʁə.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 | recroisse /ʁə.kʁwas/ |
recroisses /ʁə.kʁwas/ |
recroisse /ʁə.kʁwas/ |
recroissions /ʁə.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/ |
recroissiez /ʁə.kʁwa.sje/ |
recroissent /ʁə.kʁwas/ |
| imperfect2 | recrûsse /ʁə.kʁys/ |
recrûsses /ʁə.kʁys/ |
recrût /ʁə.kʁy/ |
recrûssions /ʁə.kʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
recrûssiez /ʁə.kʁy.sje/ |
recrûssent /ʁə.kʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recroîs /ʁə.kʁwa/ |
— | recroissons /ʁə.kʁwa.sɔ̃/ |
recroissez /ʁə.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[edit]
- “recroître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.