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crécher
crécher
French
Verb
crécher
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written crécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crècher-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of crécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | crécher | avoir créché | |||||
| gerund | en créchant | en ayant créché | |||||
| present participle | créchant /kʁe.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | créché /kʁe.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèches /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
créchons /kʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
créchez /kʁe.ʃe/ |
crèchent /kʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | créchais /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchais /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchait /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchions /kʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
créchiez /kʁe.ʃje/ |
créchaient /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | créchai /kʁe.ʃe/ |
créchas /kʁe.ʃa/ |
crécha /kʁe.ʃa/ |
créchâmes /kʁe.ʃam/ |
créchâtes /kʁe.ʃat/ |
créchèrent /kʁe.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | crècherai or crécherai /kʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
crècheras or crécheras /kʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
crèchera or créchera /kʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
crècherons or crécherons /kʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
crècherez or crécherez /kʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
crècheront or crécheront /kʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | crècherais or crécherais /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherais or crécherais /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherait or crécherait /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherions or crécherions /kʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crècheriez or crécheriez /kʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
crècheraient or crécheraient /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèches /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
créchions /kʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
créchiez /kʁe.ʃje/ |
crèchent /kʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
créchasse /kʁe.ʃas/ |
créchasses /kʁe.ʃas/ |
créchât /kʁe.ʃa/ |
créchassions /kʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
créchassiez /kʁe.ʃa.sje/ |
créchassent /kʁe.ʃas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
— | créchons /kʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
créchez /kʁe.ʃe/ |
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