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crémer
crémer
French
Verb
crémer
Antonyms
Derived terms
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 crémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crèmer-, 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.
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | crémer | avoir crémé | |||||
| gerund | en crémant | en ayant crémé | |||||
| present participle | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | crémé /kʁe.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect | crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémait /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crémaient /kʁe.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | crémai /kʁe.me/ |
crémas /kʁe.ma/ |
créma /kʁe.ma/ |
crémâmes /kʁe.mam/ |
crémâtes /kʁe.mat/ |
crémèrent /kʁe.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | crèmerai or crémerai /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeras or crémeras /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmera or crémera /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmerons or crémerons /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
crèmerez or crémerez /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeront or crémeront /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerait or crémerait /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerions or crémerions /kʁɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crèmeriez or crémeriez /kʁɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
crèmeraient or crémeraient /kʁɛm.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 | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect1 |
crémasse /kʁe.mas/ |
crémasses /kʁe.mas/ |
crémât /kʁe.ma/ |
crémassions /kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
crémassiez /kʁe.ma.sje/ |
crémassent /kʁe.mas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | crème /kʁɛm/ |
— | crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Etymology 2
Verb
crémer
- (transitive) to cremate
- 2006, Philippe Charlier, Médecin des morts, 2008 ed., Paris: Fayard, ISBN 978-2-213-62722-9, p. 272
- En 1867 a lieu la découverte du bocal d'apothicaire censé contenir quelques ossements crémés de Jeanne d'Arc recueillis sous le bûcher, conservé dans un droguier abandonné dans le grenier d'une pharmacie de la rue du Temple, à Paris.
- 2006, Philippe Charlier, Médecin des morts, 2008 ed., Paris: Fayard, ISBN 978-2-213-62722-9, p. 272
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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 crémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crèmer-, 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.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | crémer | avoir crémé | |||||
| gerund | en crémant | en ayant crémé | |||||
| present participle | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | crémé /kʁe.me/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect | crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémait /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crémaient /kʁe.mɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | crémai /kʁe.me/ |
crémas /kʁe.ma/ |
créma /kʁe.ma/ |
crémâmes /kʁe.mam/ |
crémâtes /kʁe.mat/ |
crémèrent /kʁe.mɛʁ/ |
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| future | crèmerai or crémerai /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeras or crémeras /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmera or crémera /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmerons or crémerons /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
crèmerez or crémerez /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeront or crémeront /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerait or crémerait /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerions or crémerions /kʁɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crèmeriez or crémeriez /kʁɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
crèmeraient or crémeraient /kʁɛm.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 | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect1 |
crémasse /kʁe.mas/ |
crémasses /kʁe.mas/ |
crémât /kʁe.ma/ |
crémassions /kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
crémassiez /kʁe.ma.sje/ |
crémassent /kʁe.mas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | crème /kʁɛm/ |
— | crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “crémer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).