crécher

French

Etymology

From crèche.

Verb

crécher

1. (familiar) to inhabit, live

Conjugation

• 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.

   Conjugation of crécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		crécher			avoir créché
gerund		en créchant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		créchant
past participle		créché
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	crèche	crèches	crèche	créchons	créchez	crèchent
	imperfect	créchais	créchais	créchait	créchions	créchiez	créchaient
	past historic1	créchai	créchas	crécha	créchâmes	créchâtes	créchèrent
	future	crècherai or crécherai	crècheras or crécheras	crèchera or créchera	crècherons or crécherons	crècherez or crécherez	crècheront or crécheront
	conditional	crècherais or crécherais	crècherais or crécherais	crècherait or crécherait	crècherions or crécherions	crècheriez or crécheriez	crècheraient or crécheraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	crèche	crèches	crèche	créchions	créchiez	crèchent
	imperfect1	créchasse	créchasses	créchât	créchassions	créchassiez	créchassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	crèche	—	créchons	créchez	—
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