crouler

French

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *corrutulāre, frequentative of Latin corruere. If so, cognate with Italian crollare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁu.le/

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Verb

crouler

1. (intransitive) to collapse

Conjugation

Conjugation of crouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	crouler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	croulant /kʁu.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		croulé /kʁu.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	croule /kʁul/	croules /kʁul/	croule /kʁul/	croulons /kʁu.lɔ̃/	croulez /kʁu.le/	croulent /kʁul/
	imperfect	croulais /kʁu.lɛ/	croulais /kʁu.lɛ/	croulait /kʁu.lɛ/	croulions /kʁu.ljɔ̃/	crouliez /kʁu.lje/	croulaient /kʁu.lɛ/
	past historic2	croulai /kʁu.le/	croulas /kʁu.la/	croula /kʁu.la/	croulâmes /kʁu.lam/	croulâtes /kʁu.lat/	croulèrent /kʁu.lɛʁ/
	future	croulerai /kʁul.ʁe/	crouleras /kʁul.ʁa/	croulera /kʁul.ʁa/	croulerons /kʁul.ʁɔ̃/	croulerez /kʁul.ʁe/	crouleront /kʁul.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	croulerais /kʁul.ʁɛ/	croulerais /kʁul.ʁɛ/	croulerait /kʁul.ʁɛ/	croulerions /kʁu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	crouleriez /kʁu.lə.ʁje/	crouleraient /kʁul.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	croule /kʁul/	croules /kʁul/	croule /kʁul/	croulions /kʁu.ljɔ̃/	crouliez /kʁu.lje/	croulent /kʁul/
	imperfect2	croulasse /kʁu.las/	croulasses /kʁu.las/	croulât /kʁu.la/	croulassions /kʁu.la.sjɔ̃/	croulassiez /kʁu.la.sje/	croulassent /kʁu.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	croule /kʁul/	—	croulons /kʁu.lɔ̃/	croulez /kʁu.le/	—
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

• écrouler

Further reading

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