grossir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁo.siʁ/
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Verb
grossir
- (transitive) to increase, to make larger
- (transitive) to plump up
- (intransitive) to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat
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 grossir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | grossir | avoir grossi | |||||
| gerund | en grossissant | en ayant grossi | |||||
| present participle | grossissant /ɡʁo.si.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | grossi /ɡʁo.si/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | grossis /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossis /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossit /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossissons /ɡʁo.si.sɔ̃/ |
grossissez /ɡʁo.si.se/ |
grossissent /ɡʁo.sis/ |
| imperfect | grossissais /ɡʁo.si.sɛ/ |
grossissais /ɡʁo.si.sɛ/ |
grossissait /ɡʁo.si.sɛ/ |
grossissions /ɡʁo.si.sjɔ̃/ |
grossissiez /ɡʁo.si.sje/ |
grossissaient /ɡʁo.si.sɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | grossis /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossis /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossit /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossîmes /ɡʁo.sim/ |
grossîtes /ɡʁo.sit/ |
grossirent /ɡʁo.siʁ/ | |
| future | grossirai /ɡʁo.si.ʁe/ |
grossiras /ɡʁo.si.ʁa/ |
grossira /ɡʁo.si.ʁa/ |
grossirons /ɡʁo.si.ʁɔ̃/ |
grossirez /ɡʁo.si.ʁe/ |
grossiront /ɡʁo.si.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grossirais /ɡʁo.si.ʁɛ/ |
grossirais /ɡʁo.si.ʁɛ/ |
grossirait /ɡʁo.si.ʁɛ/ |
grossirions /ɡʁo.si.ʁjɔ̃/ |
grossiriez /ɡʁo.si.ʁje/ |
grossiraient /ɡʁo.si.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | grossisse /ɡʁo.sis/ |
grossisses /ɡʁo.sis/ |
grossisse /ɡʁo.sis/ |
grossissions /ɡʁo.si.sjɔ̃/ |
grossissiez /ɡʁo.si.sje/ |
grossissent /ɡʁo.sis/ |
| imperfect1 | grossisse /ɡʁo.sis/ |
grossisses /ɡʁo.sis/ |
grossît /ɡʁo.si/ |
grossissions /ɡʁo.si.sjɔ̃/ |
grossissiez /ɡʁo.si.sje/ |
grossissent /ɡʁo.sis/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | grossis /ɡʁo.si/ |
— | grossissons /ɡʁo.si.sɔ̃/ |
grossissez /ɡʁo.si.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “grossir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Since Old French, from gros (“thick”) + -ir.
Verb
grossir
- (transitive) to make bigger
- (intransitive) to become bigger
Descendants
- French: grossir
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