crever

From Old French crever, inherited from Latin crepāre, present active infinitive of crepō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /kʁə.ve/

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crever

1. to pop, burst
2. (slang) to snuff it, pop one's clogs (to die)

   crever de faim ― to be starving

   crever de soif ― to be parched

   crever de froid ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   crever de chaud ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (slang) to wear out, knacker
4. to have a puncture

This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il crève rather than *il creve. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.

• (die): mourir

• “crever” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin crepāre, present active infinitive of crepō.

crever

1. to burst
2. to die

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem criev distinct from the unstressed stem crev. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• creveure

• “crever” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (crever)