croustiller

French

Etymology

From croûte (“crust”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁus.ti.je/

Verb

croustiller

1. (intransitive) to get crunchier
2. (transitive) to crunch, munch

Conjugation

Conjugation of croustiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	croustiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	croustillant /kʁus.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		croustillé /kʁus.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	croustille /kʁus.tij/	croustilles /kʁus.tij/	croustille /kʁus.tij/	croustillons /kʁus.ti.jɔ̃/	croustillez /kʁus.ti.je/	croustillent /kʁus.tij/
	imperfect	croustillais /kʁus.ti.jɛ/	croustillais /kʁus.ti.jɛ/	croustillait /kʁus.ti.jɛ/	croustillions /kʁus.tij.jɔ̃/	croustilliez /kʁus.tij.je/	croustillaient /kʁus.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	croustillai /kʁus.ti.je/	croustillas /kʁus.ti.ja/	croustilla /kʁus.ti.ja/	croustillâmes /kʁus.ti.jam/	croustillâtes /kʁus.ti.jat/	croustillèrent /kʁus.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	croustillerai /kʁus.tij.ʁe/	croustilleras /kʁus.tij.ʁa/	croustillera /kʁus.tij.ʁa/	croustillerons /kʁus.tij.ʁɔ̃/	croustillerez /kʁus.tij.ʁe/	croustilleront /kʁus.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	croustillerais /kʁus.tij.ʁɛ/	croustillerais /kʁus.tij.ʁɛ/	croustillerait /kʁus.tij.ʁɛ/	croustillerions /kʁus.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	croustilleriez /kʁus.ti.jə.ʁje/	croustilleraient /kʁus.tij.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	croustille /kʁus.tij/	croustilles /kʁus.tij/	croustille /kʁus.tij/	croustillions /kʁus.tij.jɔ̃/	croustilliez /kʁus.tij.je/	croustillent /kʁus.tij/
	imperfect2	croustillasse /kʁus.ti.jas/	croustillasses /kʁus.ti.jas/	croustillât /kʁus.ti.ja/	croustillassions /kʁus.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	croustillassiez /kʁus.ti.ja.sje/	croustillassent /kʁus.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	croustille /kʁus.tij/	—	croustillons /kʁus.ti.jɔ̃/	croustillez /kʁus.ti.je/	—
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).

Further reading

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