crémer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁe.me/
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written crémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crèmer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| present participle | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | crémé /kʁe.me/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | crémer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect | crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémait /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crémaient /kʁe.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crémai /kʁe.me/ |
crémas /kʁe.ma/ |
créma /kʁe.ma/ |
crémâmes /kʁe.mam/ |
crémâtes /kʁe.mat/ |
crémèrent /kʁe.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | crèmerai or crémerai /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeras or crémeras /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmera or crémera /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmerons or crémerons /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
crèmerez or crémerez /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeront or crémeront /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerait or crémerait /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerions or crémerions /kʁɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crèmeriez or crémeriez /kʁɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
crèmeraient or crémeraient /kʁɛm.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 | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect2 | crémasse /kʁe.mas/ |
crémasses /kʁe.mas/ |
crémât /kʁe.ma/ |
crémassions /kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
crémassiez /kʁe.ma.sje/ |
crémassent /kʁe.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crème /kʁɛm/ |
— | crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Antonyms
Derived terms
Verb
crémer
- (archaic, rare) (transitive) to cremate
- 2006, Philippe Charlier, Médecin des morts, 2008 ed., Paris: Fayard, →ISBN, p. 272
- En 1867 a lieu la découverte du bocal d'apothicaire censé contenir quelques ossements crémés de Jeanne d'Arc recueillis sous le bûcher, conservé dans un droguier abandonné dans le grenier d'une pharmacie de la rue du Temple, à Paris.
- 2006, Philippe Charlier, Médecin des morts, 2008 ed., Paris: Fayard, →ISBN, p. 272
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written crémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written crèmer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| present participle | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | crémé /kʁe.me/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | crémer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | crémant /kʁe.mɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect | crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémais /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémait /kʁe.mɛ/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crémaient /kʁe.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crémai /kʁe.me/ |
crémas /kʁe.ma/ |
créma /kʁe.ma/ |
crémâmes /kʁe.mam/ |
crémâtes /kʁe.mat/ |
crémèrent /kʁe.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | crèmerai or crémerai /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeras or crémeras /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmera or crémera /kʁɛm.ʁa/ |
crèmerons or crémerons /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ |
crèmerez or crémerez /kʁɛm.ʁe/ |
crèmeront or crémeront /kʁɛm.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerais or crémerais /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerait or crémerait /kʁɛm.ʁɛ/ |
crèmerions or crémerions /kʁɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crèmeriez or crémeriez /kʁɛ.mə.ʁje/ |
crèmeraient or crémeraient /kʁɛm.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 | crème /kʁɛm/ |
crèmes /kʁɛm/ |
crème /kʁɛm/ |
crémions /kʁe.mjɔ̃/ |
crémiez /kʁe.mje/ |
crèment /kʁɛm/ |
| imperfect2 | crémasse /kʁe.mas/ |
crémasses /kʁe.mas/ |
crémât /kʁe.ma/ |
crémassions /kʁe.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
crémassiez /kʁe.ma.sje/ |
crémassent /kʁe.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crème /kʁɛm/ |
— | crémons /kʁe.mɔ̃/ |
crémez /kʁe.me/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “crémer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).