blâmer

See also: blamer and Blamer

French

Etymology

From Old French blasmer, from Vulgar Latin *blastēmāre, present active infinitive of *blastēmō, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blasphémer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑ.me/

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• Homophones: blâmai, blâmé, blâmée, blâmées, blâmés, blâmez

Verb

blâmer

1. to blame

Conjugation

Conjugation of blâmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blâmer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blâmant /blɑ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blâmé /blɑ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blâme /blɑm/	blâmes /blɑm/	blâme /blɑm/	blâmons /blɑ.mɔ̃/	blâmez /blɑ.me/	blâment /blɑm/
	imperfect	blâmais /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmais /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmait /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmions /blɑ.mjɔ̃/	blâmiez /blɑ.mje/	blâmaient /blɑ.mɛ/
	past historic2	blâmai /blɑ.me/	blâmas /blɑ.ma/	blâma /blɑ.ma/	blâmâmes /blɑ.mam/	blâmâtes /blɑ.mat/	blâmèrent /blɑ.mɛʁ/
	future	blâmerai /blɑm.ʁe/	blâmeras /blɑm.ʁa/	blâmera /blɑm.ʁa/	blâmerons /blɑm.ʁɔ̃/	blâmerez /blɑm.ʁe/	blâmeront /blɑm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blâmerais /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerais /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerait /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerions /blɑ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	blâmeriez /blɑ.mə.ʁje/	blâmeraient /blɑm.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	blâme /blɑm/	blâmes /blɑm/	blâme /blɑm/	blâmions /blɑ.mjɔ̃/	blâmiez /blɑ.mje/	blâment /blɑm/
	imperfect2	blâmasse /blɑ.mas/	blâmasses /blɑ.mas/	blâmât /blɑ.ma/	blâmassions /blɑ.ma.sjɔ̃/	blâmassiez /blɑ.ma.sje/	blâmassent /blɑ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blâme /blɑm/	—	blâmons /blɑ.mɔ̃/	blâmez /blɑ.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 only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “blâmer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ambler