gréer
French
Etymology
From 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
- IPA(key): /ɡʁe.e/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of gréer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gréer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Further reading
- “gréer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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