croquer
French
Etymology
From Middle French croquer, crocquer, from Old French crokier (“to slap, hit, strike”), probably a variant of the same verb represented by Modern French craquer (“to break, crack, crunch”). More at craquer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁɔ.ke/
Audio (Canada): (file)
Verb
croquer
Conjugation
Conjugation of croquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | croquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | croquant /kʁɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | croqué /kʁɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | croque /kʁɔk/ |
croques /kʁɔk/ |
croque /kʁɔk/ |
croquons /kʁɔ.kɔ̃/ |
croquez /kʁɔ.ke/ |
croquent /kʁɔk/ |
| imperfect | croquais /kʁɔ.kɛ/ |
croquais /kʁɔ.kɛ/ |
croquait /kʁɔ.kɛ/ |
croquions /kʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
croquiez /kʁɔ.kje/ |
croquaient /kʁɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | croquai /kʁɔ.ke/ |
croquas /kʁɔ.ka/ |
croqua /kʁɔ.ka/ |
croquâmes /kʁɔ.kam/ |
croquâtes /kʁɔ.kat/ |
croquèrent /kʁɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | croquerai /kʁɔ.kʁe/ |
croqueras /kʁɔ.kʁa/ |
croquera /kʁɔ.kʁa/ |
croquerons /kʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
croquerez /kʁɔ.kʁe/ |
croqueront /kʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | croquerais /kʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
croquerais /kʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
croquerait /kʁɔ.kʁɛ/ |
croquerions /kʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
croqueriez /kʁɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
croqueraient /kʁɔ.kʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | croque /kʁɔk/ |
croques /kʁɔk/ |
croque /kʁɔk/ |
croquions /kʁɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
croquiez /kʁɔ.kje/ |
croquent /kʁɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | croquasse /kʁɔ.kas/ |
croquasses /kʁɔ.kas/ |
croquât /kʁɔ.ka/ |
croquassions /kʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
croquassiez /kʁɔ.ka.sje/ |
croquassent /kʁɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | croque /kʁɔk/ |
— | croquons /kʁɔ.kɔ̃/ |
croquez /kʁɔ.ke/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “croquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.