cribler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cribler, from Old French cribler, crieuler, from Late Latin crīblāre, a dissimilated form of the Classical Latin crībrāre. By surface analysis, crible +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.ble/

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Verb

cribler

1. (transitive) to sift, sieve (filter through a sieve or screen)
2. (transitive, usually used in the passive) to riddle (cover with holes)
3. (transitive, figurative) to riddle, fill, cover (fill or cover with a multitude of)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cribler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cribler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	criblant /kʁi.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		criblé /kʁi.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	crible /kʁibl/	cribles /kʁibl/	crible /kʁibl/	criblons /kʁi.blɔ̃/	criblez /kʁi.ble/	criblent /kʁibl/
	imperfect	criblais /kʁi.blɛ/	criblais /kʁi.blɛ/	criblait /kʁi.blɛ/	criblions /kʁi.bli.jɔ̃/	cribliez /kʁi.bli.je/	criblaient /kʁi.blɛ/
	past historic2	criblai /kʁi.ble/	criblas /kʁi.bla/	cribla /kʁi.bla/	criblâmes /kʁi.blam/	criblâtes /kʁi.blat/	criblèrent /kʁi.blɛʁ/
	future	criblerai /kʁi.blə.ʁe/	cribleras /kʁi.blə.ʁa/	criblera /kʁi.blə.ʁa/	criblerons /kʁi.blə.ʁɔ̃/	criblerez /kʁi.blə.ʁe/	cribleront /kʁi.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	criblerais /kʁi.blə.ʁɛ/	criblerais /kʁi.blə.ʁɛ/	criblerait /kʁi.blə.ʁɛ/	criblerions /kʁi.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	cribleriez /kʁi.blə.ʁje/	cribleraient /kʁi.blə.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	crible /kʁibl/	cribles /kʁibl/	crible /kʁibl/	criblions /kʁi.bli.jɔ̃/	cribliez /kʁi.bli.je/	criblent /kʁibl/
	imperfect2	criblasse /kʁi.blas/	criblasses /kʁi.blas/	criblât /kʁi.bla/	criblassions /kʁi.bla.sjɔ̃/	criblassiez /kʁi.bla.sje/	criblassent /kʁi.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	crible /kʁibl/	—	criblons /kʁi.blɔ̃/	criblez /kʁi.ble/	—
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

• criblage
• crible
• cribleur

Further reading

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