crescere
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin crēscere, from Proto-Italic *krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow, become bigger”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]créscere (first-person singular present crésco, first-person singular past historic crébbi, past participle cresciùto, auxiliary (intransitive) èssere or (transitive) avére)
- (intransitive) to grow, to increase, to expand [auxiliary essere]
- (intransitive, figurative) to progress [auxiliary essere]
- (transitive) to increase
- (transitive) to grow, to cultivate
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of créscere (root-stressed -ere; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | créscere | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | èssere1, avére2 | gerund | crescèndo | |||
present participle | crescènte | past participle | cresciùto | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | crésco | crésci | crésce | cresciàmo | crescéte | créscono |
imperfect | crescévo | crescévi | crescéva | crescevàmo | crescevàte | crescévano |
past historic | crébbi | crescésti | crébbe | crescémmo | crescéste | crébbero |
future | crescerò | crescerài | crescerà | crescerémo | cresceréte | crescerànno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | crescerèi | crescerésti | crescerèbbe, crescerébbe | crescerémmo | cresceréste | crescerèbbero, crescerébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | crésca | crésca | crésca | cresciàmo | cresciàte | créscano |
imperfect | crescéssi | crescéssi | crescésse | crescéssimo | crescéste | crescéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
crésci | crésca | cresciàmo | crescéte | créscano | ||
negative imperative | non créscere | non crésca | non cresciàmo | non crescéte | non créscano |
1Intransitive.
2Transitive.
Related terms
[edit]- crescendo
- crescenza
- crescimento
- crescita
- decrescere / screscere
- increscere / rincrescere
- crescent, from the French croissant, used to describe the waxing phase of the moon
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]crēscere
Categories:
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/eʃʃere
- Rhymes:Italian/eʃʃere/3 syllables
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Italian lemmas
- Italian verbs
- Italian verbs with root-stressed infinitive
- Italian verbs ending in -ere
- Italian irregular verbs
- Italian verbs with irregular past historic
- Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary
- Italian verbs taking avere as auxiliary
- Italian intransitive verbs
- Italian transitive verbs
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms