lamenter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Noun
lamenter (plural lamenters)
- One who laments.
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lamentāre (“to weep, to cry”).
Pronunciation
Verb
lamenter
Conjugation
Conjugation of se lamenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | se lamenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | se lamentant /sə la.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lamenté /la.mɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | me lamente /mə la.mɑ̃t/ |
te lamentes /tə la.mɑ̃t/ |
se lamente /sə la.mɑ̃t/ |
nous lamentons /nu la.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
vous lamentez /vu la.mɑ̃.te/ |
se lamentent /sə la.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | me lamentais /mə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
te lamentais /tə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
se lamentait /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/ |
nous lamentions /nu la.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
vous lamentiez /vu la.mɑ̃.tje/ |
se lamentaient /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | me lamentai /mə la.mɑ̃.te/ |
te lamentas /tə la.mɑ̃.ta/ |
se lamenta /sə la.mɑ̃.ta/ |
nous lamentâmes /nu la.mɑ̃.tam/ |
vous lamentâtes /vu la.mɑ̃.tat/ |
se lamentèrent /sə la.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | me lamenterai /mə la.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
te lamenteras /tə la.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
se lamentera /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁa/ |
nous lamenterons /nu la.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
vous lamenterez /vu la.mɑ̃.tʁe/ |
se lamenteront /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | me lamenterais /mə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
te lamenterais /tə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
se lamenterait /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
nous lamenterions /nu la.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous lamenteriez /vu la.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
se lamenteraient /sə la.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | me lamente /mə la.mɑ̃t/ |
te lamentes /tə la.mɑ̃t/ |
se lamente /sə la.mɑ̃t/ |
nous lamentions /nu la.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
vous lamentiez /vu la.mɑ̃.tje/ |
se lamentent /sə la.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | me lamentasse /mə la.mɑ̃.tas/ |
te lamentasses /tə la.mɑ̃.tas/ |
se lamentât /sə la.mɑ̃.ta/ |
nous lamentassions /nu la.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
vous lamentassiez /vu la.mɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
se lamentassent /sə la.mɑ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lamente-toi /la.mɑ̃t.twa/ |
— | lamentons-nous /la.mɑ̃.tɔ̃.nu/ |
lamentez-vous /la.mɑ̃.te.vu/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lamenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
lāmenter
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of lāmentor