cravater

French

Etymology

From cravate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (v) /kʁa.va.te/

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Verb

cravater

1. (transitive) to put on a tie
2. (transitive) to decorate someone with a chain or ribbon around the neck
3. (transitive) to strangle, choke

Conjugation

Conjugation of cravater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cravater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cravatant /kʁa.va.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cravaté /kʁa.va.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cravate /kʁa.vat/	cravates /kʁa.vat/	cravate /kʁa.vat/	cravatons /kʁa.va.tɔ̃/	cravatez /kʁa.va.te/	cravatent /kʁa.vat/
	imperfect	cravatais /kʁa.va.tɛ/	cravatais /kʁa.va.tɛ/	cravatait /kʁa.va.tɛ/	cravations /kʁa.va.tjɔ̃/	cravatiez /kʁa.va.tje/	cravataient /kʁa.va.tɛ/
	past historic2	cravatai /kʁa.va.te/	cravatas /kʁa.va.ta/	cravata /kʁa.va.ta/	cravatâmes /kʁa.va.tam/	cravatâtes /kʁa.va.tat/	cravatèrent /kʁa.va.tɛʁ/
	future	cravaterai /kʁa.va.tʁe/	cravateras /kʁa.va.tʁa/	cravatera /kʁa.va.tʁa/	cravaterons /kʁa.va.tʁɔ̃/	cravaterez /kʁa.va.tʁe/	cravateront /kʁa.va.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cravaterais /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/	cravaterais /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/	cravaterait /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/	cravaterions /kʁa.va.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cravateriez /kʁa.va.tə.ʁje/	cravateraient /kʁa.va.tʁɛ/
(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	cravate /kʁa.vat/	cravates /kʁa.vat/	cravate /kʁa.vat/	cravations /kʁa.va.tjɔ̃/	cravatiez /kʁa.va.tje/	cravatent /kʁa.vat/
	imperfect2	cravatasse /kʁa.va.tas/	cravatasses /kʁa.va.tas/	cravatât /kʁa.va.ta/	cravatassions /kʁa.va.ta.sjɔ̃/	cravatassiez /kʁa.va.ta.sje/	cravatassent /kʁa.va.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cravate /kʁa.vat/	—	cravatons /kʁa.va.tɔ̃/	cravatez /kʁa.va.te/	—
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

• cravatable
• cravate

Further reading

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