crapahuter

French

Alternative forms

• crapaüter

Etymology

From crapahut (“trudge”), from crapaud (“toad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁa.pa.y.te/

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Verb

crapahuter

1. (intransitive) to walk to battle, especially over difficult terrain; to yomp

Conjugation

Conjugation of crapahuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	crapahuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	crapahutant /kʁa.pa.y.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		crapahuté /kʁa.pa.y.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	crapahute /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahutes /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahute /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahutons /kʁa.pa.y.tɔ̃/	crapahutez /kʁa.pa.y.te/	crapahutent /kʁa.pa.yt/
	imperfect	crapahutais /kʁa.pa.y.tɛ/	crapahutais /kʁa.pa.y.tɛ/	crapahutait /kʁa.pa.y.tɛ/	crapahutions /kʁa.pa.y.tjɔ̃/	crapahutiez /kʁa.pa.y.tje/	crapahutaient /kʁa.pa.y.tɛ/
	past historic2	crapahutai /kʁa.pa.y.te/	crapahutas /kʁa.pa.y.ta/	crapahuta /kʁa.pa.y.ta/	crapahutâmes /kʁa.pa.y.tam/	crapahutâtes /kʁa.pa.y.tat/	crapahutèrent /kʁa.pa.y.tɛʁ/
	future	crapahuterai /kʁa.pa.y.tʁe/	crapahuteras /kʁa.pa.y.tʁa/	crapahutera /kʁa.pa.y.tʁa/	crapahuterons /kʁa.pa.y.tʁɔ̃/	crapahuterez /kʁa.pa.y.tʁe/	crapahuteront /kʁa.pa.y.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	crapahuterais /kʁa.pa.y.tʁɛ/	crapahuterais /kʁa.pa.y.tʁɛ/	crapahuterait /kʁa.pa.y.tʁɛ/	crapahuterions /kʁa.pa.y.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	crapahuteriez /kʁa.pa.y.tə.ʁje/	crapahuteraient /kʁa.pa.y.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	crapahute /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahutes /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahute /kʁa.pa.yt/	crapahutions /kʁa.pa.y.tjɔ̃/	crapahutiez /kʁa.pa.y.tje/	crapahutent /kʁa.pa.yt/
	imperfect2	crapahutasse /kʁa.pa.y.tas/	crapahutasses /kʁa.pa.y.tas/	crapahutât /kʁa.pa.y.ta/	crapahutassions /kʁa.pa.y.ta.sjɔ̃/	crapahutassiez /kʁa.pa.y.ta.sje/	crapahutassent /kʁa.pa.y.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	crapahute /kʁa.pa.yt/	—	crapahutons /kʁa.pa.y.tɔ̃/	crapahutez /kʁa.pa.y.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

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

Anagrams

• parachuter