pâmer
See also: pamer
French
Etymology
From Latin spasmare, from spasmus (“spasm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.me/ ~ /pɑ.me/
Audio (Paris): (file)
Verb
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.
- 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Alexandre:
- Ah, je regrette de ne pas avoir connu le temps où les filles, dans les rues de nos villes, sur les routes de nos campagnes, se pâmaient devant les soldats… le prestige de l'uniforme. Maintenant, elles se pâment devant les voitures de sport.
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- (reflexive, colloquial) to be overcome (de with)
- Je me suis pâmé de rire. ― I was in fits of laughter.
Conjugation
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
- “pâmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.