blâmer

See also: 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/
• Homophones: blâmai, blâmé, blâmée, blâmées, blâmés, blâmez

Verb

blâmer

1. to blame

Conjugation

  Conjugation of blâmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		blâmer			avoir blâmé
gerund		en blâmant			en ayant blâmé
present participle		blâmant /blɑ.mɑ̃/
past participle		blâmé /blɑ.me/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	blâme /blɑm/	blâmes /blɑm/	blâme /blɑm/	blâmions /blɑ.mjɔ̃/	blâmiez /blɑ.mje/	blâment /blɑm/
	imperfect1	blâmasse /blɑ.mas/	blâmasses /blɑ.mas/	blâmât /blɑ.ma/	blâmassions /blɑ.ma.sjɔ̃/	blâmassiez /blɑ.ma.sje/	blâmassent /blɑ.mas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	blâme /blɑm/	—	blâmons /blɑ.mɔ̃/	blâmez /blɑ.me/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ambler