croiser
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From croix + -er. Compare Spanish and Portuguese cruzar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]croiser
- to cross, to put in the shape of a cross
- to cross, to go across
- Croisez le chemin. ― Cross the path.
- 1976, “Le France”, performed by Michel Sardou:
- J’étais un bateau gigantesque / Capable de croiser mille ans
- I was a gigantic ship / Able to cross a thousand years
- (of two routes) to cross, to intersect
- to cross, to crossbreed
- to meet unexpectedly, to run into, to bump into
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of croiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | croiser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | croisant /kʁwa.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | croisé /kʁwa.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | croise /kʁwaz/ |
croises /kʁwaz/ |
croise /kʁwaz/ |
croisons /kʁwa.zɔ̃/ |
croisez /kʁwa.ze/ |
croisent /kʁwaz/ |
| imperfect | croisais /kʁwa.zɛ/ |
croisais /kʁwa.zɛ/ |
croisait /kʁwa.zɛ/ |
croisions /kʁwa.zjɔ̃/ |
croisiez /kʁwa.zje/ |
croisaient /kʁwa.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | croisai /kʁwa.ze/ |
croisas /kʁwa.za/ |
croisa /kʁwa.za/ |
croisâmes /kʁwa.zam/ |
croisâtes /kʁwa.zat/ |
croisèrent /kʁwa.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | croiserai /kʁwaz.ʁe/ |
croiseras /kʁwaz.ʁa/ |
croisera /kʁwaz.ʁa/ |
croiserons /kʁwaz.ʁɔ̃/ |
croiserez /kʁwaz.ʁe/ |
croiseront /kʁwaz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | croiserais /kʁwaz.ʁɛ/ |
croiserais /kʁwaz.ʁɛ/ |
croiserait /kʁwaz.ʁɛ/ |
croiserions /kʁwa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
croiseriez /kʁwa.zə.ʁje/ |
croiseraient /kʁwaz.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 | croise /kʁwaz/ |
croises /kʁwaz/ |
croise /kʁwaz/ |
croisions /kʁwa.zjɔ̃/ |
croisiez /kʁwa.zje/ |
croisent /kʁwaz/ |
| imperfect2 | croisasse /kʁwa.zas/ |
croisasses /kʁwa.zas/ |
croisât /kʁwa.za/ |
croisassions /kʁwa.za.sjɔ̃/ |
croisassiez /kʁwa.za.sje/ |
croisassent /kʁwa.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | croise /kʁwaz/ |
— | croisons /kʁwa.zɔ̃/ |
croisez /kʁwa.ze/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]- croisade
- croisement
- croiser le fer
- croiser les doigts
- croiseur
- entrecroiser
- feux croisés
- mots croisés
- rester les bras croisés
- se croiser les bras
Further reading
[edit]- “croiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.