Chrupi

Chrupi is a Polish term that appears as the third-person singular present tense form of the verb chrupać, meaning to crunch or munch. In everyday Polish, chrupi is used to describe the act of producing a crunching sound, as in a sentence like “On chrupi” (“He crunches”). In written text, chrupi is also used in onomatopoeic contexts to evoke the sound of biting into crisp foods or brittle objects.

Chrupi belongs to a family of words built from the root chrup-. Related forms include chrupnięcie, referring to a crunching sound or the act of crunching, and chrupiący, an adjective meaning crunchy or crisp. The infinitive chrupać is the base form from which chrupi is derived, and other person and tense forms are generated from it. In dictionaries, chrupi is typically listed as an inflected form of chrupać rather than as a separate lexical item.

Related terms include chrupać, chrupnięcie and chrupiący, which illustrate the broader semantic field around sounds and textures of crunching and crispness in Polish.