cravater
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
cravater
- (transitive) to put on a tie
- (transitive) to decorate someone with a chain or ribbon around the neck
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “cravater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.