crachiner
French
Alternative forms
- crassiner (obsolete)
Etymology
From cracher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁa.ʃi.ne/
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Verb
crachiner
- (dated, of rain) to spit, drizzle
- Synonym: bruiner
Conjugation
This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of crachiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | crachiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | crachinant /kʁa.ʃi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crachiné /kʁa.ʃi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | — | — | crachine /kʁa.ʃin/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | crachinait /kʁa.ʃi.nɛ/ | — | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | crachina /kʁa.ʃi.na/ | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | crachinera /kʁa.ʃin.ʁa/ | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | crachinerait /kʁa.ʃin.ʁɛ/ | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | — | — | crachine /kʁa.ʃin/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | crachinât /kʁa.ʃi.na/ | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- crachin
Further reading
- “crachin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.