craqueter

French

Etymology

From craquer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁak.te/

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Verb

craqueter

1. (intransitive) to crackle, snap, crepitate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il craquète and the third-person singular future indicative il craquètera.

Conjugation of craqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	craqueter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	craquetant /kʁak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		craqueté /kʁak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	craquète /kʁa.kɛt/	craquètes /kʁa.kɛt/	craquète /kʁa.kɛt/	craquetons /kʁak.tɔ̃/	craquetez /kʁak.te/	craquètent /kʁa.kɛt/
	imperfect	craquetais /kʁak.tɛ/	craquetais /kʁak.tɛ/	craquetait /kʁak.tɛ/	craquetions /kʁa.kə.tjɔ̃/	craquetiez /kʁa.kə.tje/	craquetaient /kʁak.tɛ/
	past historic2	craquetai /kʁak.te/	craquetas /kʁak.ta/	craqueta /kʁak.ta/	craquetâmes /kʁak.tam/	craquetâtes /kʁak.tat/	craquetèrent /kʁak.tɛʁ/
	future	craquèterai /kʁa.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁe/	craquèteras /kʁa.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁa/	craquètera /kʁa.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁa/	craquèterons /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɔ̃/	craquèterez /kʁa.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁe/	craquèteront /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	craquèterais /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/	craquèterais /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/	craquèterait /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.tʁɛ/	craquèterions /kʁa.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kʁa.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	craquèteriez /kʁa.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kʁa.ke.tə.ʁje/	craquèteraient /kʁa.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kʁa.ke.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	craquète /kʁa.kɛt/	craquètes /kʁa.kɛt/	craquète /kʁa.kɛt/	craquetions /kʁa.kə.tjɔ̃/	craquetiez /kʁa.kə.tje/	craquètent /kʁa.kɛt/
	imperfect2	craquetasse /kʁak.tas/	craquetasses /kʁak.tas/	craquetât /kʁak.ta/	craquetassions /kʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/	craquetassiez /kʁak.ta.sje/	craquetassent /kʁak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	craquète /kʁa.kɛt/	—	craquetons /kʁak.tɔ̃/	craquetez /kʁak.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: 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

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