diffamer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin diffāmāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
diffamer
Conjugation
Conjugation of diffamer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | diffamer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | diffamant /di.fa.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | diffamé /di.fa.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | diffame /di.fam/ |
diffames /di.fam/ |
diffame /di.fam/ |
diffamons /di.fa.mɔ̃/ |
diffamez /di.fa.me/ |
diffament /di.fam/ |
| imperfect | diffamais /di.fa.mɛ/ |
diffamais /di.fa.mɛ/ |
diffamait /di.fa.mɛ/ |
diffamions /di.fa.mjɔ̃/ |
diffamiez /di.fa.mje/ |
diffamaient /di.fa.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | diffamai /di.fa.me/ |
diffamas /di.fa.ma/ |
diffama /di.fa.ma/ |
diffamâmes /di.fa.mam/ |
diffamâtes /di.fa.mat/ |
diffamèrent /di.fa.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | diffamerai /di.fam.ʁe/ |
diffameras /di.fam.ʁa/ |
diffamera /di.fam.ʁa/ |
diffamerons /di.fam.ʁɔ̃/ |
diffamerez /di.fam.ʁe/ |
diffameront /di.fam.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | diffamerais /di.fam.ʁɛ/ |
diffamerais /di.fam.ʁɛ/ |
diffamerait /di.fam.ʁɛ/ |
diffamerions /di.fa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
diffameriez /di.fa.mə.ʁje/ |
diffameraient /di.fam.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 | diffame /di.fam/ |
diffames /di.fam/ |
diffame /di.fam/ |
diffamions /di.fa.mjɔ̃/ |
diffamiez /di.fa.mje/ |
diffament /di.fam/ |
| imperfect2 | diffamasse /di.fa.mas/ |
diffamasses /di.fa.mas/ |
diffamât /di.fa.ma/ |
diffamassions /di.fa.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
diffamassiez /di.fa.ma.sje/ |
diffamassent /di.fa.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | diffame /di.fam/ |
— | diffamons /di.fa.mɔ̃/ |
diffamez /di.fa.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
- “diffamer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
diffāmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of diffāmō