exclamer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclāmāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

exclamer

1. to exclaim, shout out

Conjugation

Conjugation of exclamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exclamer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exclamant /ɛk.skla.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exclamé /ɛk.skla.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exclame /ɛk.sklam/	exclames /ɛk.sklam/	exclame /ɛk.sklam/	exclamons /ɛk.skla.mɔ̃/	exclamez /ɛk.skla.me/	exclament /ɛk.sklam/
	imperfect	exclamais /ɛk.skla.mɛ/	exclamais /ɛk.skla.mɛ/	exclamait /ɛk.skla.mɛ/	exclamions /ɛk.skla.mjɔ̃/	exclamiez /ɛk.skla.mje/	exclamaient /ɛk.skla.mɛ/
	past historic2	exclamai /ɛk.skla.me/	exclamas /ɛk.skla.ma/	exclama /ɛk.skla.ma/	exclamâmes /ɛk.skla.mam/	exclamâtes /ɛk.skla.mat/	exclamèrent /ɛk.skla.mɛʁ/
	future	exclamerai /ɛk.sklam.ʁe/	exclameras /ɛk.sklam.ʁa/	exclamera /ɛk.sklam.ʁa/	exclamerons /ɛk.sklam.ʁɔ̃/	exclamerez /ɛk.sklam.ʁe/	exclameront /ɛk.sklam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exclamerais /ɛk.sklam.ʁɛ/	exclamerais /ɛk.sklam.ʁɛ/	exclamerait /ɛk.sklam.ʁɛ/	exclamerions /ɛk.skla.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	exclameriez /ɛk.skla.mə.ʁje/	exclameraient /ɛk.sklam.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	exclame /ɛk.sklam/	exclames /ɛk.sklam/	exclame /ɛk.sklam/	exclamions /ɛk.skla.mjɔ̃/	exclamiez /ɛk.skla.mje/	exclament /ɛk.sklam/
	imperfect2	exclamasse /ɛk.skla.mas/	exclamasses /ɛk.skla.mas/	exclamât /ɛk.skla.ma/	exclamassions /ɛk.skla.ma.sjɔ̃/	exclamassiez /ɛk.skla.ma.sje/	exclamassent /ɛk.skla.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exclame /ɛk.sklam/	—	exclamons /ɛk.skla.mɔ̃/	exclamez /ɛk.skla.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• exclamation
• exclamatif
• clamer

Further reading

• “exclamer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

exclāmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exclāmō