lamenter

English

Etymology

From lament +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Noun

lamenter (plural lamenters)

1. One who laments.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lamentāre (“to weep, to cry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

lamenter

1. (reflexive) to lament; to bewail; to bemoan

Conjugation

Conjugation of se lamenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	se lamenter
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	se lamentant /sə la.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		lamenté /la.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	me lamente /mə la.mɑ̃t/	te lamentes /tə la.mɑ̃t/	se lamente /sə la.mɑ̃t/	nous lamentons /nu la.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	vous lamentez /vu la.mɑ̃.te/	se lamentent /sə la.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	me lamentais /mə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/	te lamentais /tə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/	se lamentait /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/	nous lamentions /nu la.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vous lamentiez /vu la.mɑ̃.tje/	se lamentaient /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	me lamentai /mə la.mɑ̃.te/	te lamentas /tə la.mɑ̃.ta/	se lamenta /sə la.mɑ̃.ta/	nous lamentâmes /nu la.mɑ̃.tam/	vous lamentâtes /vu la.mɑ̃.tat/	se lamentèrent /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	me lamenterai /mə la.mɑ̃.tʁe/	te lamenteras /tə la.mɑ̃.tʁa/	se lamentera /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁa/	nous lamenterons /nu la.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	vous lamenterez /vu la.mɑ̃.tʁe/	se lamenteront /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	me lamenterais /mə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	te lamenterais /tə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	se lamenterait /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	nous lamenterions /nu la.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous lamenteriez /vu la.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	se lamenteraient /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	me lamente /mə la.mɑ̃t/	te lamentes /tə la.mɑ̃t/	se lamente /sə la.mɑ̃t/	nous lamentions /nu la.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	vous lamentiez /vu la.mɑ̃.tje/	se lamentent /sə la.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	me lamentasse /mə la.mɑ̃.tas/	te lamentasses /tə la.mɑ̃.tas/	se lamentât /sə la.mɑ̃.ta/	nous lamentassions /nu la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	vous lamentassiez /vu la.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	se lamentassent /sə la.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lamente-toi /la.mɑ̃t.twa/	—	lamentons-nous /la.mɑ̃.tɔ̃.nu/	lamentez-vous /la.mɑ̃.te.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Derived terms

• lamentation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• lamèrent, maternel

Latin

Verb

lāmenter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of lāmentor