clamser
French
Etymology
First attested as crapser, crampser; either of onomatopoeic origin or related to crampe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klam.se/
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Verb
clamser
- (colloquial) to croak, to die
- 2015 June, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 2, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:
- Parce qu'un oncle a dû te refiler dix mille euros en clamsant on va tous s'accrocher à toi comme des morbacs ? Pauvre crevard, tu me fais de la peine…
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of clamser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clamser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | clamsant /klam.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clamsé /klam.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | clamse /klams/ |
clamses /klams/ |
clamse /klams/ |
clamsons /klam.sɔ̃/ |
clamsez /klam.se/ |
clamsent /klams/ |
| imperfect | clamsais /klam.sɛ/ |
clamsais /klam.sɛ/ |
clamsait /klam.sɛ/ |
clamsions /klam.sjɔ̃/ |
clamsiez /klam.sje/ |
clamsaient /klam.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | clamsai /klam.se/ |
clamsas /klam.sa/ |
clamsa /klam.sa/ |
clamsâmes /klam.sam/ |
clamsâtes /klam.sat/ |
clamsèrent /klam.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | clamserai /klam.sə.ʁe/ |
clamseras /klam.sə.ʁa/ |
clamsera /klam.sə.ʁa/ |
clamserons /klam.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
clamserez /klam.sə.ʁe/ |
clamseront /klam.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clamserais /klam.sə.ʁɛ/ |
clamserais /klam.sə.ʁɛ/ |
clamserait /klam.sə.ʁɛ/ |
clamserions /klam.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clamseriez /klam.sə.ʁje/ |
clamseraient /klam.sə.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 | clamse /klams/ |
clamses /klams/ |
clamse /klams/ |
clamsions /klam.sjɔ̃/ |
clamsiez /klam.sje/ |
clamsent /klams/ |
| imperfect2 | clamsasse /klam.sas/ |
clamsasses /klam.sas/ |
clamsât /klam.sa/ |
clamsassions /klam.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
clamsassiez /klam.sa.sje/ |
clamsassent /klam.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | clamse /klams/ |
— | clamsons /klam.sɔ̃/ |
clamsez /klam.se/ |
— | |
| 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
- “clamser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.