créneler

French

Alternative forms

• crèneler (post-1990 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁen.le/ ~ /kʁɛn.le/

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• Homophones: crénelai, crénelé, crénelée, crénelées, crénelés, crénelez

Verb

créneler

1. to form the shape of a crenel, to crenellate
2. (minting) to mill (a coin)

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of créneler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	créneler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	crénelant /kʁen.lɑ̃/ or /kʁɛn.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		crénelé /kʁen.le/ or /kʁɛn.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	crénelle or crénèle /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelles or crénèles /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelle or crénèle /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelons /kʁen.lɔ̃/ or /kʁɛn.lɔ̃/	crénelez /kʁen.le/ or /kʁɛn.le/	crénellent or crénèlent /kʁe.nɛl/
	imperfect	crénelais /kʁen.lɛ/ or /kʁɛn.lɛ/	crénelais /kʁen.lɛ/ or /kʁɛn.lɛ/	crénelait /kʁen.lɛ/ or /kʁɛn.lɛ/	crénelions /kʁe.nə.ljɔ̃/	créneliez /kʁe.nə.lje/	crénelaient /kʁen.lɛ/ or /kʁɛn.lɛ/
	past historic2	crénelai /kʁen.le/ or /kʁɛn.le/	crénelas /kʁen.la/ or /kʁɛn.la/	crénela /kʁen.la/ or /kʁɛn.la/	crénelâmes /kʁen.lam/ or /kʁɛn.lam/	crénelâtes /kʁen.lat/ or /kʁɛn.lat/	crénelèrent /kʁen.lɛʁ/ or /kʁɛn.lɛʁ/
	future	crénellerai or crénèlerai /kʁe.nɛl.ʁe/	crénelleras or crénèleras /kʁe.nɛl.ʁa/	crénellera or crénèlera /kʁe.nɛl.ʁa/	crénellerons or crénèlerons /kʁe.nɛl.ʁɔ̃/	crénellerez or crénèlerez /kʁe.nɛl.ʁe/	crénelleront or crénèleront /kʁe.nɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	crénellerais or crénèlerais /kʁe.nɛl.ʁɛ/	crénellerais or crénèlerais /kʁe.nɛl.ʁɛ/	crénellerait or crénèlerait /kʁe.nɛl.ʁɛ/	crénellerions or crénèlerions /kʁe.nɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kʁe.ne.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	crénelleriez or crénèleriez /kʁe.nɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /kʁe.ne.lə.ʁje/	crénelleraient or crénèleraient /kʁe.nɛl.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	crénelle or crénèle /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelles or crénèles /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelle or crénèle /kʁe.nɛl/	crénelions /kʁe.nə.ljɔ̃/	créneliez /kʁe.nə.lje/	crénellent or crénèlent /kʁe.nɛl/
	imperfect2	crénelasse /kʁen.las/ or /kʁɛn.las/	crénelasses /kʁen.las/ or /kʁɛn.las/	crénelât /kʁen.la/ or /kʁɛn.la/	crénelassions /kʁen.la.sjɔ̃/ or /kʁɛn.la.sjɔ̃/	crénelassiez /kʁen.la.sje/ or /kʁɛn.la.sje/	crénelassent /kʁen.las/ or /kʁɛn.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	crénelle or crénèle /kʁe.nɛl/	—	crénelons /kʁen.lɔ̃/ or /kʁɛn.lɔ̃/	crénelez /kʁen.le/ or /kʁɛn.le/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• crénelage
• créneau

Further reading

• “créneler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.