croûter
See also: crouter
French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French croster and its variants, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin crusta (“crust, hard shell”)
Pronunciation
Verb
croûter
- (colloquial) to eat
- (dated) to crust (form a crust)
Conjugation
Conjugation of croûter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | croûter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | croûtant /kʁu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | croûté /kʁu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | croûte /kʁut/ |
croûtes /kʁut/ |
croûte /kʁut/ |
croûtons /kʁu.tɔ̃/ |
croûtez /kʁu.te/ |
croûtent /kʁut/ |
| imperfect | croûtais /kʁu.tɛ/ |
croûtais /kʁu.tɛ/ |
croûtait /kʁu.tɛ/ |
croûtions /kʁu.tjɔ̃/ |
croûtiez /kʁu.tje/ |
croûtaient /kʁu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | croûtai /kʁu.te/ |
croûtas /kʁu.ta/ |
croûta /kʁu.ta/ |
croûtâmes /kʁu.tam/ |
croûtâtes /kʁu.tat/ |
croûtèrent /kʁu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | croûterai /kʁu.tʁe/ |
croûteras /kʁu.tʁa/ |
croûtera /kʁu.tʁa/ |
croûterons /kʁu.tʁɔ̃/ |
croûterez /kʁu.tʁe/ |
croûteront /kʁu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | croûterais /kʁu.tʁɛ/ |
croûterais /kʁu.tʁɛ/ |
croûterait /kʁu.tʁɛ/ |
croûterions /kʁu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
croûteriez /kʁu.tə.ʁje/ |
croûteraient /kʁu.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 | croûte /kʁut/ |
croûtes /kʁut/ |
croûte /kʁut/ |
croûtions /kʁu.tjɔ̃/ |
croûtiez /kʁu.tje/ |
croûtent /kʁut/ |
| imperfect2 | croûtasse /kʁu.tas/ |
croûtasses /kʁu.tas/ |
croûtât /kʁu.ta/ |
croûtassions /kʁu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
croûtassiez /kʁu.ta.sje/ |
croûtassent /kʁu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | croûte /kʁut/ |
— | croûtons /kʁu.tɔ̃/ |
croûtez /kʁu.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “croûter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.