tramer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
tramer
- to weave
- (figurative) to hatch, think up, come up with
- 2019, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad, La fille de Vercingétorix [Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter] (Astérix), Vanves: Les Éditions Albert René, →ISBN, page 19:
- Ces mines réjouies… Ils ont l'air de tramer quelque chose !
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Conjugation
Conjugation of tramer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tramer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tramant /tʁa.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tramé /tʁa.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trame /tʁam/ |
trames /tʁam/ |
trame /tʁam/ |
tramons /tʁa.mɔ̃/ |
tramez /tʁa.me/ |
trament /tʁam/ |
| imperfect | tramais /tʁa.mɛ/ |
tramais /tʁa.mɛ/ |
tramait /tʁa.mɛ/ |
tramions /tʁa.mjɔ̃/ |
tramiez /tʁa.mje/ |
tramaient /tʁa.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tramai /tʁa.me/ |
tramas /tʁa.ma/ |
trama /tʁa.ma/ |
tramâmes /tʁa.mam/ |
tramâtes /tʁa.mat/ |
tramèrent /tʁa.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | tramerai /tʁam.ʁe/ |
trameras /tʁam.ʁa/ |
tramera /tʁam.ʁa/ |
tramerons /tʁam.ʁɔ̃/ |
tramerez /tʁam.ʁe/ |
trameront /tʁam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tramerais /tʁam.ʁɛ/ |
tramerais /tʁam.ʁɛ/ |
tramerait /tʁam.ʁɛ/ |
tramerions /tʁa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trameriez /tʁa.mə.ʁje/ |
trameraient /tʁam.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 | trame /tʁam/ |
trames /tʁam/ |
trame /tʁam/ |
tramions /tʁa.mjɔ̃/ |
tramiez /tʁa.mje/ |
trament /tʁam/ |
| imperfect2 | tramasse /tʁa.mas/ |
tramasses /tʁa.mas/ |
tramât /tʁa.ma/ |
tramassions /tʁa.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
tramassiez /tʁa.ma.sje/ |
tramassent /tʁa.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trame /tʁam/ |
— | tramons /tʁa.mɔ̃/ |
tramez /tʁa.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
- “tramer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012