cru

In a sentence

• Je n'ai jamais cru à ces histoires.

  I have never believed in these stories.

  Here, 'cru' is used as the past participle of the verb 'croire', meaning 'to believe', indicating a completed action in the past.

• Il préfère toujours les légumes crus.

  He always prefers raw vegetables.

  In this sentence, 'crus' is the masculine plural form of the adjective 'cru', meaning 'raw', describing the state of the vegetables.

• Elle a dit qu'elle t'avait cru.

  She said that she had believed you.

  Here, 'cru' functions as the past participle of 'croire', indicating that she had believed the person spoken to in the past tense.