pâmer

See also: pamer

French

Etymology

From Latin spasmare, from spasmus (“spasm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.me/, /pɑ.me/

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Verb

pâmer

1. (reflexive, literary, dated) to swoon
2. (reflexive, colloquial) to be in raptures (devant over something)

   Il s’est pâmé devant la nouvelle maison. ― He was ecstatic about the new house.

3. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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

Anagrams

• Parme, prame, rampe, rampé