Creixes

Creixes is a form in the Catalan language. It is the second-person singular present indicative form of the verb creixer, meaning “you grow.” In standard Catalan orthography, this form appears as two words: tu creixes. The corresponding full present-tense paradigm for creixer is: jo creixo, tu creixes, ell creix, nosaltres creixem, vosaltres creixeu, ells creixen.

The verb creixer denotes growth or increase in various senses, including physical growth, the development of plants, or metaphorical expansion such as skills, experience, or influence. It is commonly used in everyday speech as well as in literature and scientific writing when describing growth processes or change over time. The related noun creixement is used to refer to growth or development as a concept.

Etymologically, creixer comes from Latin crescere, meaning to grow or increase, and has cognates in related Romance languages. In Catalan, the verb exhibits a stem change in the present tense (creix-) that governs the second-person singular form creixes, among others. Understanding this form helps in parsing sentence structure and in conjugation across tenses and moods.