crécher
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written crécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crècher-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| infinitive | simple | crécher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | créchant /kʁe.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | créché /kʁe.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèches /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
créchons /kʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
créchez /kʁe.ʃe/ |
crèchent /kʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | créchais /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchais /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchait /kʁe.ʃɛ/ |
créchions /kʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
créchiez /kʁe.ʃje/ |
créchaient /kʁe.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | créchai /kʁe.ʃe/ |
créchas /kʁe.ʃa/ |
crécha /kʁe.ʃa/ |
créchâmes /kʁe.ʃam/ |
créchâtes /kʁe.ʃat/ |
créchèrent /kʁe.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | crècherai or crécherai /kʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
crècheras or crécheras /kʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
crèchera or créchera /kʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
crècherons or crécherons /kʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
crècherez or crécherez /kʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
crècheront or crécheront /kʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crècherais or crécherais /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherais or crécherais /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherait or crécherait /kʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
crècherions or crécherions /kʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crècheriez or crécheriez /kʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ or /kʁe.ʃə.ʁje/ |
crècheraient or crécheraient /kʁɛʃ.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 | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèches /kʁɛʃ/ |
crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
créchions /kʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
créchiez /kʁe.ʃje/ |
crèchent /kʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | créchasse /kʁe.ʃas/ |
créchasses /kʁe.ʃas/ |
créchât /kʁe.ʃa/ |
créchassions /kʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
créchassiez /kʁe.ʃa.sje/ |
créchassent /kʁe.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crèche /kʁɛʃ/ |
— | créchons /kʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
créchez /kʁe.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||