Attention! “Crois en moi” and “crois-moi” don’t mean the same thing: The former means “believe in me”, while the latter, a bit less demanding, simply means “believe me”…

Now, crois-moi (believe me), la conjugaison of the verb CROIRE is not that complicated!

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But before putting your conjugaison skills to the test, here are two facts to remember about croire, in case you don’t know them already:

• If you just say “crois” alone and mean it as a verb, then it means “believe” (in the imperative mode), whereas if you intend it as a noun, then you would spell it with an “x” in the end instead of an “s“, as “croix“, which in this case means a “cross“, as in “la croix de Lorraine” (“The Lorraine Cross.”)

• Within the word croire you can find the three-letter word “roi“, meaning “king“, whereas in the English verb “believe“, you’ll find the three-letter word “lie“… 🙂

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The verb croire (to believe) as in “Crois-moi” (“Believe me”)

Here “Crois-moi” is a 1939 French song by Lina Margy, a woman who is credited to have launched the music career of several young promising French singers at the time, precisely because elle a *cru* en leur potentiel (she *believed* in their potential), such as Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Geroges Brassens, and Charles Aznavour.

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* Conjugaison of the verb CROIRE (To BELIEVE):