agrandir
French edit
Etymology edit
From a- + grand + -ir. From grand.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
agrandir
- (transitive) to enlarge, make bigger
- (transitive) to extend, to expand (a house, building, area)
- (reflexive) to grow, get bigger
- to embiggen
- to aggrandize
Conjugation edit
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 agrandir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | agrandir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | agrandissant /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | agrandi /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandit /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandissons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
agrandissez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.se/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect | agrandissais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissait /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissaient /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandit /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandîmes /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dim/ |
agrandîtes /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dit/ |
agrandirent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
| future | agrandirai /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
agrandiras /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
agrandira /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
agrandirons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
agrandirez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
agrandiront /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | agrandirais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirais /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirait /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
agrandirions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agrandiriez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.ʁje/ |
agrandiraient /a.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 | agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisses /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
| imperfect2 | agrandisse /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandisses /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ |
agrandît /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
agrandissions /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
agrandissiez /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sje/ |
agrandissent /a.ɡʁɑ̃.dis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | agrandis /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di/ |
— | agrandissons /a.ɡʁɑ̃.di.sɔ̃/ |
agrandissez /a.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “agrandir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.