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): /bla.me/, /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 /bla.mɑ̃/ or /blɑ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blâmé /bla.me/ or /blɑ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blâme /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâmes /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâme /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâmons /bla.mɔ̃/ or /blɑ.mɔ̃/	blâmez /bla.me/ or /blɑ.me/	blâment /blam/ or /blɑm/
	imperfect	blâmais /bla.mɛ/ or /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmais /bla.mɛ/ or /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmait /bla.mɛ/ or /blɑ.mɛ/	blâmions /bla.mjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.mjɔ̃/	blâmiez /bla.mje/ or /blɑ.mje/	blâmaient /bla.mɛ/ or /blɑ.mɛ/
	past historic2	blâmai /bla.me/ or /blɑ.me/	blâmas /bla.ma/ or /blɑ.ma/	blâma /bla.ma/ or /blɑ.ma/	blâmâmes /bla.mam/ or /blɑ.mam/	blâmâtes /bla.mat/ or /blɑ.mat/	blâmèrent /bla.mɛʁ/ or /blɑ.mɛʁ/
	future	blâmerai /blam.ʁe/ or /blɑm.ʁe/	blâmeras /blam.ʁa/ or /blɑm.ʁa/	blâmera /blam.ʁa/ or /blɑm.ʁa/	blâmerons /blam.ʁɔ̃/ or /blɑm.ʁɔ̃/	blâmerez /blam.ʁe/ or /blɑm.ʁe/	blâmeront /blam.ʁɔ̃/ or /blɑm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blâmerais /blam.ʁɛ/ or /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerais /blam.ʁɛ/ or /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerait /blam.ʁɛ/ or /blɑm.ʁɛ/	blâmerions /bla.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	blâmeriez /bla.mə.ʁje/ or /blɑ.mə.ʁje/	blâmeraient /blam.ʁɛ/ or /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 /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâmes /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâme /blam/ or /blɑm/	blâmions /bla.mjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.mjɔ̃/	blâmiez /bla.mje/ or /blɑ.mje/	blâment /blam/ or /blɑm/
	imperfect2	blâmasse /bla.mas/ or /blɑ.mas/	blâmasses /bla.mas/ or /blɑ.mas/	blâmât /bla.ma/ or /blɑ.ma/	blâmassions /bla.ma.sjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.ma.sjɔ̃/	blâmassiez /bla.ma.sje/ or /blɑ.ma.sje/	blâmassent /bla.mas/ or /blɑ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blâme /blam/ or /blɑm/	—	blâmons /bla.mɔ̃/ or /blɑ.mɔ̃/	blâmez /bla.me/ or /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 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

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

Anagrams

• ambler