alarmer
English
Etymology
Noun
alarmer (plural alarmers)
- One who alarms; one who sounds the alarm.
- (US) A multialarm fire of a specified number of alarms.
- 1991, Leonard Victor Huber, New Orleans: a pictorial history (page 277)
- This three-alarmer brought out no fewer than seven steam pumpers, which are drawing water from a fire cistern...
- 2007, Flora Ann Scearce, Cotton Mill Girl (page 118)
- “A two-alarmer,” someone commented. “Must be a nasty one.” We slurped our soda and ran for the trolley. “Fire's in Loray,” the motorman told us as he rang his bell.
- 1991, Leonard Victor Huber, New Orleans: a pictorial history (page 277)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
alarmer
- to alarm (alert)
Conjugation
Conjugation of alarmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | alarmer | avoir alarmé | |||||
| gerund | en alarmant | en ayant alarmé | |||||
| present participle | alarmant | ||||||
| past participle | alarmé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | alarme | alarmes | alarme | alarmons | alarmez | alarment |
| imperfect | alarmais | alarmais | alarmait | alarmions | alarmiez | alarmaient | |
| past historic1 | alarmai | alarmas | alarma | alarmâmes | alarmâtes | alarmèrent | |
| future | alarmerai | alarmeras | alarmera | alarmerons | alarmerez | alarmeront | |
| conditional | alarmerais | alarmerais | alarmerait | alarmerions | alarmeriez | alarmeraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | alarme | alarmes | alarme | alarmions | alarmiez | alarment |
| imperfect1 | alarmasse | alarmasses | alarmât | alarmassions | alarmassiez | alarmassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | alarme | — | alarmons | alarmez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||