grossissez

Grossissez is a form of the French verb grossir, which means to become bigger or to gain weight. In the present indicative, vous grossissez corresponds to the second-person plural (you all, or you formal) and is used to describe someone growing larger or increasing in size, weight, or extent. It can also be used in a figurative sense to indicate growth in other quantities or in importance.

The word also appears in the imperative form, Grossissez!, which is used to instruct a group to increase something or to make a quantity larger, for example in business, budgeting, or measurement tasks. The imperative retains the same form as the present tense for vous.

Common usage includes literal weight gain, such as "Si vous mangez trop, vous grossissez," meaning you gain weight if you eat too much. It can also refer to increases in non-physical measures, for instance "les coûts grossissent rapidement" (the costs are increasing rapidly) or in instructions like "Grossissez les chiffres pour atteindre l’objectif" (increase the figures to meet the objective). The verb is a regular -ir verb and follows the standard conjugation pattern: je grossis, tu grossis, il/elle grossit, nous grossissons, vous grossissez, ils grossissent.

Etymologically, grossir derives from the adjective gros, meaning large or fat, with the -ir verb forming a notion of becoming larger.