crêper
See also: creper
English
Noun
crêper (plural crêpers)
- Alternative form of creper
- 1917, Proceedings of the First Agricultural Conference, Malaya: Held at the Chamber of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, April 25th to 28th 1917, page 103:
- Strip coagulation in tanks is more economical than mass coagulation as the strip will go easily through a macerator without being cut up, rollers can be set fairly close for the first roll, and once through the macerator brings the rubber to a stage where the crêper and smooth finisher can deal with it. The macerator and crêper should be hard chilled rollers with uneven speeds, the number of teeth in the cogs being 21 for the front roller and 18 for the back one.
- 1926, Archief voor de rubbercultuur in Nederlandsch-Indië, page 222:
- Generally speaking the V-groove is seen on the macerators, the U-groove on the crêpers.
- 1979, Paper Technology and Industry, page 91, column 2:
- On plant side, the mill had two MG machines and an off-machine crêper.
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French
Etymology
crêpe + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁɛ.pe/, /kʁe.pe/
Verb
crêper
- (transitive) to crinkle, to crimp
Conjugation
Conjugation of crêper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | crêper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | crêpant /kʁɛ.pɑ̃/ or /kʁe.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crêpé /kʁɛ.pe/ or /kʁe.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | crêpe /kʁɛp/ | crêpes /kʁɛp/ | crêpe /kʁɛp/ | crêpons /kʁɛ.pɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pɔ̃/ | crêpez /kʁɛ.pe/ or /kʁe.pe/ | crêpent /kʁɛp/ |
| imperfect | crêpais /kʁɛ.pɛ/ or /kʁe.pɛ/ | crêpais /kʁɛ.pɛ/ or /kʁe.pɛ/ | crêpait /kʁɛ.pɛ/ or /kʁe.pɛ/ | crêpions /kʁɛ.pjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pjɔ̃/ | crêpiez /kʁɛ.pje/ or /kʁe.pje/ | crêpaient /kʁɛ.pɛ/ or /kʁe.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crêpai /kʁɛ.pe/ or /kʁe.pe/ | crêpas /kʁɛ.pa/ or /kʁe.pa/ | crêpa /kʁɛ.pa/ or /kʁe.pa/ | crêpâmes /kʁɛ.pam/ or /kʁe.pam/ | crêpâtes /kʁɛ.pat/ or /kʁe.pat/ | crêpèrent /kʁɛ.pɛʁ/ or /kʁe.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | crêperai /kʁɛ.pʁe/ or /kʁe.pʁe/ | crêperas /kʁɛ.pʁa/ or /kʁe.pʁa/ | crêpera /kʁɛ.pʁa/ or /kʁe.pʁa/ | crêperons /kʁɛ.pʁɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pʁɔ̃/ | crêperez /kʁɛ.pʁe/ or /kʁe.pʁe/ | crêperont /kʁɛ.pʁɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crêperais /kʁɛ.pʁɛ/ or /kʁe.pʁɛ/ | crêperais /kʁɛ.pʁɛ/ or /kʁe.pʁɛ/ | crêperait /kʁɛ.pʁɛ/ or /kʁe.pʁɛ/ | crêperions /kʁɛ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | crêperiez /kʁɛ.pə.ʁje/ or /kʁe.pə.ʁje/ | crêperaient /kʁɛ.pʁɛ/ or /kʁe.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | crêpe /kʁɛp/ | crêpes /kʁɛp/ | crêpe /kʁɛp/ | crêpions /kʁɛ.pjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pjɔ̃/ | crêpiez /kʁɛ.pje/ or /kʁe.pje/ | crêpent /kʁɛp/ |
| imperfect2 | crêpasse /kʁɛ.pas/ or /kʁe.pas/ | crêpasses /kʁɛ.pas/ or /kʁe.pas/ | crêpât /kʁɛ.pa/ or /kʁe.pa/ | crêpassions /kʁɛ.pa.sjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pa.sjɔ̃/ | crêpassiez /kʁɛ.pa.sje/ or /kʁe.pa.sje/ | crêpassent /kʁɛ.pas/ or /kʁe.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crêpe /kʁɛp/ | — | crêpons /kʁɛ.pɔ̃/ or /kʁe.pɔ̃/ | crêpez /kʁɛ.pe/ or /kʁe.pe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Descendants
- → Catalan: crepar
Further reading
- “crêper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.