gréer
French
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse greiða. An initial a was added to form Old French agreier by analogy with verbs like abiller. It was later removed, yielding Middle French greer and grayer, to avoid homophony with agreer.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editgréer
- (transitive, nautical) to rig
Conjugation
editConjugation of gréer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | gréer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | gréant /ɡʁe.ɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | gréé /ɡʁe.e/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | grée /ɡʁe/ |
grées /ɡʁe/ |
grée /ɡʁe/ |
gréons /ɡʁe.ɔ̃/ |
gréez /ɡʁe.e/ |
gréent /ɡʁe/ |
imperfect | gréais /ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
gréais /ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
gréait /ɡʁe.ɛ/ |
gréions /ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ or /ɡʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
gréiez /ɡʁej.je/ or /ɡʁɛj.je/ |
gréaient /ɡʁe.ɛ/ | |
past historic2 | gréai /ɡʁe.e/ |
gréas /ɡʁe.a/ |
gréa /ɡʁe.a/ |
gréâmes /ɡʁe.am/ |
gréâtes /ɡʁe.at/ |
gréèrent /ɡʁe.ɛʁ/ | |
future | gréerai /ɡʁe.ʁe/ |
gréeras /ɡʁe.ʁa/ |
gréera /ɡʁe.ʁa/ |
gréerons /ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/ |
gréerez /ɡʁe.ʁe/ |
gréeront /ɡʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | gréerais /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
gréerais /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
gréerait /ɡʁe.ʁɛ/ |
gréerions /ɡʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gréeriez /ɡʁe.ʁje/ |
gréeraient /ɡʁe.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 | grée /ɡʁe/ |
grées /ɡʁe/ |
grée /ɡʁe/ |
gréions /ɡʁej.jɔ̃/ or /ɡʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
gréiez /ɡʁej.je/ or /ɡʁɛj.je/ |
gréent /ɡʁe/ |
imperfect2 | gréasse /ɡʁe.as/ |
gréasses /ɡʁe.as/ |
gréât /ɡʁe.a/ |
gréassions /ɡʁe.a.sjɔ̃/ |
gréassiez /ɡʁe.a.sje/ |
gréassent /ɡʁe.as/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | grée /ɡʁe/ |
— | gréons /ɡʁe.ɔ̃/ |
gréez /ɡʁe.e/ |
— | |
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
editFurther reading
edit- “gréer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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