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crever: Conjugation

The crever conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb crever according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of crever, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of crever at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je crève tu crèves il/elle crève nous crevons vous crevez ils/elles crèvent Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai crevé tu as crevé il/elle a crevé nous avons crevé vous avez crevé ils/elles ont crevé Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je crevais tu crevais il/elle crevait nous crevions vous creviez ils/elles crevaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais crevé tu avais crevé il/elle avait crevé nous avions crevé vous aviez crevé ils/elles avaient crevé Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je crèverai tu crèveras il/elle crèvera nous crèverons vous crèverez ils/elles crèveront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai crevé tu auras crevé il/elle aura crevé nous aurons crevé vous aurez crevé ils/elles auront crevé Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je crèverais tu crèverais il/elle crèverait nous crèverions vous crèveriez ils/elles crèveraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais crevé tu aurais crevé il/elle aurait crevé nous aurions crevé vous auriez crevé ils/elles auraient crevé Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je crève tu crèves il/elle crève nous crevions vous creviez ils/elles crèvent Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie crevé tu aies crevé il/elle ait crevé nous ayons crevé vous ayez crevé ils/elles aient crevé Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je crevai tu crevas il/elle creva nous crevâmes vous crevâtes ils/elles crevèrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus crevé tu eus crevé il/elle eut crevé nous eûmes crevé vous eûtes crevé ils/elles eurent crevé Pronounce these verb forms

This verb is essentially a regular -er verb like arriver, donner etc, except that the vowel of the stem changes from a schwa (written e and often ellided) to è. The vowel changes occurs:

• Before non-syllabic endings in the present tense (i.e. except in the nous and vous forms);
• Throughout the future and conditional tenses.

(This vowel change is probably driven by the fact that the schwa does not occur in closed syllables in French. Unfortunately syllabification does not fully explain the future and conditional forms since, e.g. a-che-trai and ach'-trai would in terms of syllabification be well-defined.)

For some verbs ending in -eter and -eler, it is not universally agreed whether to adopt the e grave spelling as given here, or to double the l or t. For a full discussion of this issue, see my discussion of the spelling of -eter and -eler verbs.