accroître

See also: accroitre

French

Alternative forms

• accroitre (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, acreistre, inherited from Latin accrēscere. By surface analysis, a- +‎ croître.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kʁwatʁ/

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Verb

accroître

1. (transitive) to increase
   • 2012, Réaliser le changement, Congress of the French Socialist Party:

     Au cœur du modèle néolibéral, le libre-échange sans précaution a accru le phénomène des délocalisations.

     Rash free trade, at the heart of the neoliberal model, has increased the phenomenon of relocations.

2. (reflexive, s'accroître) to increase, to grow
   • c. 1918—1920, Henri Louatron, À la messe noire ou le Luciférisme existe, Mamers (Sarthe): vanity press, page 39:

     Depuis 1870 le nombre des insulteurs du Dieu des chrétiens s’est accru d’une dizaine de millions ; vous le constatiez vous-même l’an dernier.

     Since 1870, the number of blasphemers of the Christians' God has increased by some ten million; you noticed it yourself last year.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like croître except that it takes fewer circumflexes than that verb does.

Conjugation of accroître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accroître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accroissant /a.kʁwa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accru /a.kʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	accrois /a.kʁwa/	accrois /a.kʁwa/	accroît /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/
	past historic2	accrus /a.kʁy/	accrus /a.kʁy/	accrut /a.kʁy/	accrûmes /a.kʁym/	accrûtes /a.kʁyt/	accrurent /a.kʁyʁ/
	future	accroîtrai /a.kʁwa.tʁe/	accroîtras /a.kʁwa.tʁa/	accroîtra /a.kʁwa.tʁa/	accroîtrons /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/	accroîtrez /a.kʁwa.tʁe/	accroîtront /a.kʁwa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accroîtrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/	accroîtrais /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/	accroîtrait /a.kʁwa.tʁɛ/	accroîtrions /a.kʁwa.tʁi.jɔ̃/	accroîtriez /a.kʁwa.tʁi.je/	accroîtraient /a.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	accroisse /a.kʁwas/	accroisses /a.kʁwas/	accroisse /a.kʁwas/	accroissions /a.kʁwa.sjɔ̃/	accroissiez /a.kʁwa.sje/	accroissent /a.kʁwas/
	imperfect2	accrusse /a.kʁys/	accrusses /a.kʁys/	accrût /a.kʁy/	accrussions /a.kʁy.sjɔ̃/	accrussiez /a.kʁy.sje/	accrussent /a.kʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accrois /a.kʁwa/	—	accroissons /a.kʁwa.sɔ̃/	accroissez /a.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: 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).

Derived terms

• accroissable
• accroissement
• accru

 

Related terms

• accrétion
• croître

 

Further reading

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