diffamer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diffāmāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.fa.me/

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Verb

diffamer

1. to defame; smear; ruin the name of

Conjugation

Conjugation of diffamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diffamer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	diffamant /di.fa.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		diffamé /di.fa.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	diffame /di.fam/	diffames /di.fam/	diffame /di.fam/	diffamons /di.fa.mɔ̃/	diffamez /di.fa.me/	diffament /di.fam/
	imperfect	diffamais /di.fa.mɛ/	diffamais /di.fa.mɛ/	diffamait /di.fa.mɛ/	diffamions /di.fa.mjɔ̃/	diffamiez /di.fa.mje/	diffamaient /di.fa.mɛ/
	past historic2	diffamai /di.fa.me/	diffamas /di.fa.ma/	diffama /di.fa.ma/	diffamâmes /di.fa.mam/	diffamâtes /di.fa.mat/	diffamèrent /di.fa.mɛʁ/
	future	diffamerai /di.fam.ʁe/	diffameras /di.fam.ʁa/	diffamera /di.fam.ʁa/	diffamerons /di.fam.ʁɔ̃/	diffamerez /di.fam.ʁe/	diffameront /di.fam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diffamerais /di.fam.ʁɛ/	diffamerais /di.fam.ʁɛ/	diffamerait /di.fam.ʁɛ/	diffamerions /di.fa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	diffameriez /di.fa.mə.ʁje/	diffameraient /di.fam.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	diffame /di.fam/	diffames /di.fam/	diffame /di.fam/	diffamions /di.fa.mjɔ̃/	diffamiez /di.fa.mje/	diffament /di.fam/
	imperfect2	diffamasse /di.fa.mas/	diffamasses /di.fa.mas/	diffamât /di.fa.ma/	diffamassions /di.fa.ma.sjɔ̃/	diffamassiez /di.fa.ma.sje/	diffamassent /di.fa.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	diffame /di.fam/	—	diffamons /di.fa.mɔ̃/	diffamez /di.fa.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

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

Latin

Verb

diffāmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of diffāmō