accroire

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kʁwaʁ/

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Verb

accroire

1. to believe (something false)

   faire accroire à quelqu’un quelque chose ― to make someone believe something known to be false

   faire accroire à quelqu’un ― to lie to someone

Conjugation

• Normally only used in the infinitive, preceded by faire or more rarely laisser. But we can find rarely some forms (accroyons, accroyez), it seems conjugated like croire.

Derived terms

• s’en faire accroire

Further reading

• “accroire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.