ramer

See also: Ramer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ramer, from Old French ramer, from Old French raim, rain, reimes, from Latin rēmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.me/
• Homophones: ramai, ramé, ramée, ramées, ramés, ramez

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Verb

ramer

1. (intransitive) to row
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXIX, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Le fils de Barberousse était si cruel et traitait si mal ses captifs, que ceux qui occupaient les bancs de sa chiourme ne virent pas plutôt la galère la Louve se diriger sur eux et prendre de l’avance, qu’ils lâchèrent tous à la fois les rames, et saisirent leur capitaine, qui leur criait du gaillard d’arrière de ramer plus vite ; puis se le passant de banc en banc, de la poupe à la proue, ils lui donnèrent tant de coups de dents, qu’avant d’avoir atteint le mât, il avait rendu son âme aux enfers....

     The son of Barbarossa was so cruel and treated his captives so badly, that those who occupied the benches of his galley no sooner saw the galley la Louve steering to them and advancing, that they let go of the oars all at once, and seized their captain, who yelled to them from the aftcastle to row faster; then passing him to each other from bench to bench, from the poop to the prow, they bit him so much, that before having reached the mast, he had rendered his soul to Hell....

2. (informal, intransitive) to have a hard time (be in difficulties)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ramer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ramer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ramant /ʁa.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ramé /ʁa.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rame /ʁam/	rames /ʁam/	rame /ʁam/	ramons /ʁa.mɔ̃/	ramez /ʁa.me/	rament /ʁam/
	imperfect	ramais /ʁa.mɛ/	ramais /ʁa.mɛ/	ramait /ʁa.mɛ/	ramions /ʁa.mjɔ̃/	ramiez /ʁa.mje/	ramaient /ʁa.mɛ/
	past historic2	ramai /ʁa.me/	ramas /ʁa.ma/	rama /ʁa.ma/	ramâmes /ʁa.mam/	ramâtes /ʁa.mat/	ramèrent /ʁa.mɛʁ/
	future	ramerai /ʁam.ʁe/	rameras /ʁam.ʁa/	ramera /ʁam.ʁa/	ramerons /ʁam.ʁɔ̃/	ramerez /ʁam.ʁe/	rameront /ʁam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ramerais /ʁam.ʁɛ/	ramerais /ʁam.ʁɛ/	ramerait /ʁam.ʁɛ/	ramerions /ʁa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	rameriez /ʁa.mə.ʁje/	rameraient /ʁam.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	rame /ʁam/	rames /ʁam/	rame /ʁam/	ramions /ʁa.mjɔ̃/	ramiez /ʁa.mje/	rament /ʁam/
	imperfect2	ramasse /ʁa.mas/	ramasses /ʁa.mas/	ramât /ʁa.ma/	ramassions /ʁa.ma.sjɔ̃/	ramassiez /ʁa.ma.sje/	ramassent /ʁa.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rame /ʁam/	—	ramons /ʁa.mɔ̃/	ramez /ʁa.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).

Derived terms

• rame
• rameur

See also

• voguer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• armer, marre

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rameur.

Noun

ramer m (plural rameri)

1. rower (someone who does rowing, the sport)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ramer	ramerul		rameri	ramerii
genitive-dative	ramer	ramerului		rameri	ramerilor
vocative	ramerule			ramerilor

Tocharian B

Adverb

ramer

1. suddenly
2. quickly