Crave is usually followed directly by a noun or infinitive. Crave for appears in some contexts but is less standard than plain crave.
Most often, use crave without a preposition: crave attention, crave success, crave to travel. Crave for exists in some varieties of English but is less natural in standard modern usage. During, in, and about are usually separate time or topic phrases, not fixed combinations with crave. Crave after is rare and old-fashioned.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use crave directly before the thing wanted.
Use crave to followed by an infinitive for actions.
During is a separate time adjunct, not a fixed partner of crave.
Crave for appears occasionally, but standard modern English usually prefers crave without for.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Modern standard English usually omits for after crave.
✕ I crave for chocolate. ✓ I crave chocolate.About is not normally selected by crave itself.
✕ She craves about fame. ✓ She craves fame.Crave after sounds old-fashioned in most contexts.
✕ They crave after money. ✓ They crave money.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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It is not always wrong, but plain crave is more standard in modern English.
Yes. Use crave to plus the base form of a verb.
It sounds old-fashioned or literary in most modern contexts.
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