acclamer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin acclāmāre, present active infinitive of acclāmō (“applaud”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kla.me/

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Verb

acclamer

1. to acclaim, applaud (to shout applause)

Conjugation

Conjugation of acclamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acclamer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	acclamant /a.kla.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acclamé /a.kla.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	acclame /a.klam/	acclames /a.klam/	acclame /a.klam/	acclamons /a.kla.mɔ̃/	acclamez /a.kla.me/	acclament /a.klam/
	imperfect	acclamais /a.kla.mɛ/	acclamais /a.kla.mɛ/	acclamait /a.kla.mɛ/	acclamions /a.kla.mjɔ̃/	acclamiez /a.kla.mje/	acclamaient /a.kla.mɛ/
	past historic2	acclamai /a.kla.me/	acclamas /a.kla.ma/	acclama /a.kla.ma/	acclamâmes /a.kla.mam/	acclamâtes /a.kla.mat/	acclamèrent /a.kla.mɛʁ/
	future	acclamerai /a.klam.ʁe/	acclameras /a.klam.ʁa/	acclamera /a.klam.ʁa/	acclamerons /a.klam.ʁɔ̃/	acclamerez /a.klam.ʁe/	acclameront /a.klam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acclamerais /a.klam.ʁɛ/	acclamerais /a.klam.ʁɛ/	acclamerait /a.klam.ʁɛ/	acclamerions /a.kla.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	acclameriez /a.kla.mə.ʁje/	acclameraient /a.klam.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	acclame /a.klam/	acclames /a.klam/	acclame /a.klam/	acclamions /a.kla.mjɔ̃/	acclamiez /a.kla.mje/	acclament /a.klam/
	imperfect2	acclamasse /a.kla.mas/	acclamasses /a.kla.mas/	acclamât /a.kla.ma/	acclamassions /a.kla.ma.sjɔ̃/	acclamassiez /a.kla.ma.sje/	acclamassent /a.kla.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	acclame /a.klam/	—	acclamons /a.kla.mɔ̃/	acclamez /a.kla.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

• acclamation
• clamer

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) acclāmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of acclāmō