rétamer

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ étamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ta.me/

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Verb

rétamer

1. (transitive) to tin-plate again
2. (transitive) to wear out
3. (reflexive) to fall on the ground spectacularly
4. (reflexive) to fail spectacularly

Conjugation

Conjugation of rétamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rétamer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rétamant /ʁe.ta.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rétamé /ʁe.ta.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rétame /ʁe.tam/	rétames /ʁe.tam/	rétame /ʁe.tam/	rétamons /ʁe.ta.mɔ̃/	rétamez /ʁe.ta.me/	rétament /ʁe.tam/
	imperfect	rétamais /ʁe.ta.mɛ/	rétamais /ʁe.ta.mɛ/	rétamait /ʁe.ta.mɛ/	rétamions /ʁe.ta.mjɔ̃/	rétamiez /ʁe.ta.mje/	rétamaient /ʁe.ta.mɛ/
	past historic2	rétamai /ʁe.ta.me/	rétamas /ʁe.ta.ma/	rétama /ʁe.ta.ma/	rétamâmes /ʁe.ta.mam/	rétamâtes /ʁe.ta.mat/	rétamèrent /ʁe.ta.mɛʁ/
	future	rétamerai /ʁe.tam.ʁe/	rétameras /ʁe.tam.ʁa/	rétamera /ʁe.tam.ʁa/	rétamerons /ʁe.tam.ʁɔ̃/	rétamerez /ʁe.tam.ʁe/	rétameront /ʁe.tam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rétamerais /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/	rétamerais /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/	rétamerait /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/	rétamerions /ʁe.ta.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	rétameriez /ʁe.ta.mə.ʁje/	rétameraient /ʁe.tam.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	rétame /ʁe.tam/	rétames /ʁe.tam/	rétame /ʁe.tam/	rétamions /ʁe.ta.mjɔ̃/	rétamiez /ʁe.ta.mje/	rétament /ʁe.tam/
	imperfect2	rétamasse /ʁe.ta.mas/	rétamasses /ʁe.ta.mas/	rétamât /ʁe.ta.ma/	rétamassions /ʁe.ta.ma.sjɔ̃/	rétamassiez /ʁe.ta.ma.sje/	rétamassent /ʁe.ta.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rétame /ʁe.tam/	—	rétamons /ʁe.ta.mɔ̃/	rétamez /ʁe.ta.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).

Further reading

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