rétamer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.ta.me/
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Verb
rétamer
- (transitive) to tin-plate again
- (transitive) to wear out
- (reflexive) to fall on the ground spectacularly
- (reflexive) to fail spectacularly
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétamer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétamant /ʁe.ta.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétamé /ʁe.ta.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rétame /ʁe.tam/ |
rétames /ʁe.tam/ |
rétame /ʁe.tam/ |
rétamons /ʁe.ta.mɔ̃/ |
rétamez /ʁe.ta.me/ |
rétament /ʁe.tam/ |
| imperfect | rétamais /ʁe.ta.mɛ/ |
rétamais /ʁe.ta.mɛ/ |
rétamait /ʁe.ta.mɛ/ |
rétamions /ʁe.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
rétamiez /ʁe.ta.mje/ |
rétamaient /ʁe.ta.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétamai /ʁe.ta.me/ |
rétamas /ʁe.ta.ma/ |
rétama /ʁe.ta.ma/ |
rétamâmes /ʁe.ta.mam/ |
rétamâtes /ʁe.ta.mat/ |
rétamèrent /ʁe.ta.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | rétamerai /ʁe.tam.ʁe/ |
rétameras /ʁe.tam.ʁa/ |
rétamera /ʁe.tam.ʁa/ |
rétamerons /ʁe.tam.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétamerez /ʁe.tam.ʁe/ |
rétameront /ʁe.tam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétamerais /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/ |
rétamerais /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/ |
rétamerait /ʁe.tam.ʁɛ/ |
rétamerions /ʁe.ta.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétameriez /ʁe.ta.mə.ʁje/ |
rétameraient /ʁe.tam.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 | rétame /ʁe.tam/ |
rétames /ʁe.tam/ |
rétame /ʁe.tam/ |
rétamions /ʁe.ta.mjɔ̃/ |
rétamiez /ʁe.ta.mje/ |
rétament /ʁe.tam/ |
| imperfect2 | rétamasse /ʁe.ta.mas/ |
rétamasses /ʁe.ta.mas/ |
rétamât /ʁe.ta.ma/ |
rétamassions /ʁe.ta.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
rétamassiez /ʁe.ta.ma.sje/ |
rétamassent /ʁe.ta.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétame /ʁe.tam/ |
— | rétamons /ʁe.ta.mɔ̃/ |
rétamez /ʁe.ta.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
- “rétamer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.