crêper

See also: creper

English

Noun

crêper (plural crêpers)

1. 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.

French

Etymology

From crêpe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛ.pe/ ~ /kʁe.pe/

• Audio:

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Verb

crêper

1. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Descendants

• → Catalan: crepar

Further reading

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