crever
French, verb/kʁə.ve/
crever is spelled C-R-E-V-E-R (6 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crever is a French verb meaning “to pop, burst” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’ouvrir par un effort violent”.
What does crever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pop, burst
crever un œil à quelqu'un
- 2
to have a puncture
Mon pneu a à nouveau crevé.
- 3
informalto snuff it, pop one's clogs; to die
à crever
- 4
informalto wear out, knacker
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’ouvrir par un effort violent. 2. Mourir. 3. Ouvrir, faire éclater par un effort violent. 4. Rendre malade ; faire presque mourir par un excès de fatigue ou de nourriture.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of crever
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- crevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- crevé participle past
- crève first-person indicative present
- crèves indicative present second-person
- crevons first-person indicative plural
- crevez indicative plural present
- crèvent indicative plural present
- crevais first-person imperfect indicative
- crevait imperfect indicative singular
- crevions first-person imperfect indicative
- creviez imperfect indicative plural
- crevaient imperfect indicative plural
- crevai first-person historic indicative
- crevas historic indicative past
- creva historic indicative past
- crevâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crever?
- /kʁə.ve/
- \kʁə.ve\
- [kʁǝ.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to crever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is crever in French?
crever appears 9.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).