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cravater
cravater
French
Verb
cravater
- (transitive) to put on a tie
- (transitive) to decorate someone with a chain or ribbon around the neck
- (transitive) to strangle, choke
Conjugation
Conjugation of cravater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cravater | avoir cravaté | |||||
| gerund | en cravatant | en ayant cravaté | |||||
| present participle | cravatant /kʁa.va.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cravaté /kʁa.va.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | cravate /kʁa.vat/ |
cravates /kʁa.vat/ |
cravate /kʁa.vat/ |
cravatons /kʁa.va.tɔ̃/ |
cravatez /kʁa.va.te/ |
cravatent /kʁa.vat/ |
| imperfect | cravatais /kʁa.va.tɛ/ |
cravatais /kʁa.va.tɛ/ |
cravatait /kʁa.va.tɛ/ |
cravations /kʁa.va.tjɔ̃/ |
cravatiez /kʁa.va.tje/ |
cravataient /kʁa.va.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cravatai /kʁa.va.te/ |
cravatas /kʁa.va.ta/ |
cravata /kʁa.va.ta/ |
cravatâmes /kʁa.va.tam/ |
cravatâtes /kʁa.va.tat/ |
cravatèrent /kʁa.va.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | cravaterai /kʁa.va.tʁe/ |
cravateras /kʁa.va.tʁa/ |
cravatera /kʁa.va.tʁa/ |
cravaterons /kʁa.va.tʁɔ̃/ |
cravaterez /kʁa.va.tʁe/ |
cravateront /kʁa.va.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cravaterais /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/ |
cravaterais /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/ |
cravaterait /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/ |
cravaterions /kʁa.va.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cravateriez /kʁa.va.tə.ʁje/ |
cravateraient /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | cravate /kʁa.vat/ |
cravates /kʁa.vat/ |
cravate /kʁa.vat/ |
cravations /kʁa.va.tjɔ̃/ |
cravatiez /kʁa.va.tje/ |
cravatent /kʁa.vat/ |
| imperfect1 |
cravatasse /kʁa.va.tas/ |
cravatasses /kʁa.va.tas/ |
cravatât /kʁa.va.ta/ |
cravatassions /kʁa.va.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cravatassiez /kʁa.va.ta.sje/ |
cravatassent /kʁa.va.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | cravate /kʁa.vat/ |
— | cravatons /kʁa.va.tɔ̃/ |
cravatez /kʁa.va.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
- cravatable
- cravate