pâmer
See also: pamer
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin spasmare, from spasmus (“spasm”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pâmer
- (reflexive, literary, dated) to swoon
- (reflexive, colloquial) to be in raptures (devant over something)
- Il s’est pâmé devant la nouvelle maison. ― He was ecstatic about the new house.
- (reflexive, colloquial) to be overcome (de with)
- Je me suis pâmé de rire. ― I was in fits of laughter.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pâmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pâmer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pâmant /pa.mɑ̃/ or /pɑ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pâmé /pa.me/ or /pɑ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pâme /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâmes /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâme /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâmons /pa.mɔ̃/ or /pɑ.mɔ̃/ |
pâmez /pa.me/ or /pɑ.me/ |
pâment /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
| imperfect | pâmais /pa.mɛ/ or /pɑ.mɛ/ |
pâmais /pa.mɛ/ or /pɑ.mɛ/ |
pâmait /pa.mɛ/ or /pɑ.mɛ/ |
pâmions /pa.mjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.mjɔ̃/ |
pâmiez /pa.mje/ or /pɑ.mje/ |
pâmaient /pa.mɛ/ or /pɑ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pâmai /pa.me/ or /pɑ.me/ |
pâmas /pa.ma/ or /pɑ.ma/ |
pâma /pa.ma/ or /pɑ.ma/ |
pâmâmes /pa.mam/ or /pɑ.mam/ |
pâmâtes /pa.mat/ or /pɑ.mat/ |
pâmèrent /pa.mɛʁ/ or /pɑ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | pâmerai /pam.ʁe/ or /pɑm.ʁe/ |
pâmeras /pam.ʁa/ or /pɑm.ʁa/ |
pâmera /pam.ʁa/ or /pɑm.ʁa/ |
pâmerons /pam.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑm.ʁɔ̃/ |
pâmerez /pam.ʁe/ or /pɑm.ʁe/ |
pâmeront /pam.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑm.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pâmerais /pam.ʁɛ/ or /pɑm.ʁɛ/ |
pâmerais /pam.ʁɛ/ or /pɑm.ʁɛ/ |
pâmerait /pam.ʁɛ/ or /pɑm.ʁɛ/ |
pâmerions /pa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pâmeriez /pa.mə.ʁje/ or /pɑ.mə.ʁje/ |
pâmeraient /pam.ʁɛ/ or /pɑm.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 | pâme /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâmes /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâme /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
pâmions /pa.mjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.mjɔ̃/ |
pâmiez /pa.mje/ or /pɑ.mje/ |
pâment /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
| imperfect2 | pâmasse /pa.mas/ or /pɑ.mas/ |
pâmasses /pa.mas/ or /pɑ.mas/ |
pâmât /pa.ma/ or /pɑ.ma/ |
pâmassions /pa.ma.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
pâmassiez /pa.ma.sje/ or /pɑ.ma.sje/ |
pâmassent /pa.mas/ or /pɑ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pâme /pam/ or /pɑm/ |
— | pâmons /pa.mɔ̃/ or /pɑ.mɔ̃/ |
pâmez /pa.me/ or /pɑ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “pâmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.