bramer
See also: Bramer
French
Etymology
From Middle French bramer, from Old Occitan bramar, from Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍉𐌽 (brammōn), 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bramjan), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to bellow, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-. Compare Middle Low German brammen (“to roar”), Dutch brommen (“to bellow”), English brim. More at brim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁa.me/
Audio (file) - Homophones: bramai, bramé, bramée, bramées, bramés, bramez
Verb
bramer
- to bellow
- to troat (make the cry of a deer)
Conjugation
Conjugation of bramer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bramer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bramant /bʁa.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bramé /bʁa.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | brame /bʁam/ | brames /bʁam/ | brame /bʁam/ | bramons /bʁa.mɔ̃/ | bramez /bʁa.me/ | brament /bʁam/ |
| imperfect | bramais /bʁa.mɛ/ | bramais /bʁa.mɛ/ | bramait /bʁa.mɛ/ | bramions /bʁa.mjɔ̃/ | bramiez /bʁa.mje/ | bramaient /bʁa.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bramai /bʁa.me/ | bramas /bʁa.ma/ | brama /bʁa.ma/ | bramâmes /bʁa.mam/ | bramâtes /bʁa.mat/ | bramèrent /bʁa.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | bramerai /bʁam.ʁe/ | brameras /bʁam.ʁa/ | bramera /bʁam.ʁa/ | bramerons /bʁam.ʁɔ̃/ | bramerez /bʁam.ʁe/ | brameront /bʁam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bramerais /bʁam.ʁɛ/ | bramerais /bʁam.ʁɛ/ | bramerait /bʁam.ʁɛ/ | bramerions /bʁa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | brameriez /bʁa.mə.ʁje/ | brameraient /bʁam.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 | brame /bʁam/ | brames /bʁam/ | brame /bʁam/ | bramions /bʁa.mjɔ̃/ | bramiez /bʁa.mje/ | brament /bʁam/ |
| imperfect2 | bramasse /bʁa.mas/ | bramasses /bʁa.mas/ | bramât /bʁa.ma/ | bramassions /bʁa.ma.sjɔ̃/ | bramassiez /bʁa.ma.sje/ | bramassent /bʁa.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | brame /bʁam/ | — | bramons /bʁa.mɔ̃/ | bramez /bʁa.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
- “bramer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ambrer, marbre, marbré