alarmer
English
Etymology
alarm + -er
Noun
alarmer (plural alarmers)
- One who alarms; one who sounds the alarm.
- (US, in combination) A multialarm fire of a specified number of alarms.
- 1991, Leonard Victor Huber, New Orleans: a pictorial history (page 277)
- This three-alarmer brought out no fewer than seven steam pumpers, which are drawing water from a fire cistern...
- 2007, Flora Ann Scearce, Cotton Mill Girl (page 118)
- “A two-alarmer,” someone commented. “Must be a nasty one.” We slurped our soda and ran for the trolley. “Fire's in Loray,” the motorman told us as he rang his bell.
- 1991, Leonard Victor Huber, New Orleans: a pictorial history (page 277)
Anagrams
- Lamarre
French
Etymology
alarme + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.laʁ.me/
Audio (file)
Verb
alarmer
- to alarm (alert)
Conjugation
Conjugation of alarmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | alarmer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | alarmant /a.laʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | alarmé /a.laʁ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | alarme /a.laʁm/ | alarmes /a.laʁm/ | alarme /a.laʁm/ | alarmons /a.laʁ.mɔ̃/ | alarmez /a.laʁ.me/ | alarment /a.laʁm/ |
| imperfect | alarmais /a.laʁ.mɛ/ | alarmais /a.laʁ.mɛ/ | alarmait /a.laʁ.mɛ/ | alarmions /a.laʁ.mjɔ̃/ | alarmiez /a.laʁ.mje/ | alarmaient /a.laʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | alarmai /a.laʁ.me/ | alarmas /a.laʁ.ma/ | alarma /a.laʁ.ma/ | alarmâmes /a.laʁ.mam/ | alarmâtes /a.laʁ.mat/ | alarmèrent /a.laʁ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | alarmerai /a.laʁ.mə.ʁe/ | alarmeras /a.laʁ.mə.ʁa/ | alarmera /a.laʁ.mə.ʁa/ | alarmerons /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | alarmerez /a.laʁ.mə.ʁe/ | alarmeront /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | alarmerais /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | alarmerais /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | alarmerait /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | alarmerions /a.laʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | alarmeriez /a.laʁ.mə.ʁje/ | alarmeraient /a.laʁ.mə.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 | alarme /a.laʁm/ | alarmes /a.laʁm/ | alarme /a.laʁm/ | alarmions /a.laʁ.mjɔ̃/ | alarmiez /a.laʁ.mje/ | alarment /a.laʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | alarmasse /a.laʁ.mas/ | alarmasses /a.laʁ.mas/ | alarmât /a.laʁ.ma/ | alarmassions /a.laʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/ | alarmassiez /a.laʁ.ma.sje/ | alarmassent /a.laʁ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | alarme /a.laʁm/ | — | alarmons /a.laʁ.mɔ̃/ | alarmez /a.laʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “alarmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
alarmer m
- indefinite plural of alarm
Verb
alarmer
- imperative of alarmere