craqueter
French
Etymology
From craquer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁak.te/
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Verb
craqueter
- (intransitive) to crackle, snap, crepitate
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il craquète rather than *il craquete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of craqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | craqueter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | craquetant /kʁak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | craqueté /kʁak.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | craquète /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquètes /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquète /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquetons /kʁak.tɔ̃/ | craquetez /kʁak.te/ | craquètent /kʁa.kɛt/ |
imperfect | craquetais /kʁak.tɛ/ | craquetais /kʁak.tɛ/ | craquetait /kʁak.tɛ/ | craquetions /kʁa.kə.tjɔ̃/ | craquetiez /kʁa.kə.tje/ | craquetaient /kʁak.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | craquetai /kʁak.te/ | craquetas /kʁak.ta/ | craqueta /kʁak.ta/ | craquetâmes /kʁak.tam/ | craquetâtes /kʁak.tat/ | craquetèrent /kʁak.tɛʁ/ | |
future | craquèterai /kʁa.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁe/ | craquèteras /kʁa.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁa/ | craquètera /kʁa.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁa/ | craquèterons /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɔ̃/ | craquèterez /kʁa.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁe/ | craquèteront /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | craquèterais /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/ | craquèterais /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/ | craquèterait /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/ | craquèterions /kʁa.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | craquèteriez /kʁa.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kʁa.ke.tə.ʁje/ | craquèteraient /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | craquète /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquètes /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquète /kʁa.kɛt/ | craquetions /kʁa.kə.tjɔ̃/ | craquetiez /kʁa.kə.tje/ | craquètent /kʁa.kɛt/ |
imperfect2 | craquetasse /kʁak.tas/ | craquetasses /kʁak.tas/ | craquetât /kʁak.ta/ | craquetassions /kʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/ | craquetassiez /kʁak.ta.sje/ | craquetassent /kʁak.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | craquète /kʁa.kɛt/ | — | craquetons /kʁak.tɔ̃/ | craquetez /kʁak.te/ | — | |
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). |
Further reading
- “craqueter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.