bramer

See also: Bramer

French

Etymology

Inherited 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/

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• Homophones: bramai, bramé, bramée, bramées, bramés, bramez

Verb

bramer

1. to bellow
2. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ambrer, marbre, marbré