blasphémer

See also: blasphemer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin blasphēmāre, present active infinitive of blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blâmer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /blas.fe.me/
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Verb

blasphémer

to blaspheme

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written blasphémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written blasphèmer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of blasphémer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive
present participle		blasphémant /blas.fe.mɑ̃/
past participle		blasphémé /blas.fe.me/
simple		blasphémer
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		blasphémant /blas.fe.mɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphèmes /blas.fɛm/	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphémons /blas.fe.mɔ̃/	blasphémez /blas.fe.me/	blasphèment /blas.fɛm/
	imperfect	blasphémais /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémais /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémait /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémions /blas.fe.mjɔ̃/	blasphémiez /blas.fe.mje/	blasphémaient /blas.fe.mɛ/
	past historic²	blasphémai /blas.fe.me/	blasphémas /blas.fe.ma/	blasphéma /blas.fe.ma/	blasphémâmes /blas.fe.mam/	blasphémâtes /blas.fe.mat/	blasphémèrent /blas.fe.mɛʁ/
	future	blasphèmerai or blasphémerai /blas.fɛm.ʁe/	blasphèmeras or blasphémeras /blas.fɛm.ʁa/	blasphèmera or blasphémera /blas.fɛm.ʁa/	blasphèmerons or blasphémerons /blas.fɛm.ʁɔ̃/	blasphèmerez or blasphémerez /blas.fɛm.ʁe/	blasphèmeront or blasphémeront /blas.fɛm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blasphèmerais or blasphémerais /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerais or blasphémerais /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerait or blasphémerait /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerions or blasphémerions /blas.fɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	blasphèmeriez or blasphémeriez /blas.fɛ.mə.ʁje/	blasphèmeraient or blasphémeraient /blas.fɛm.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	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphèmes /blas.fɛm/	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphémions /blas.fe.mjɔ̃/	blasphémiez /blas.fe.mje/	blasphèment /blas.fɛm/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	blasphémasse /blas.fe.mas/	blasphémasses /blas.fe.mas/	blasphémât /blas.fe.ma/	blasphémassions /blas.fe.ma.sjɔ̃/	blasphémassiez /blas.fe.ma.sje/	blasphémassent /blas.fe.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	—	blasphémons /blas.fe.mɔ̃/	blasphémez /blas.fe.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ Only usable with preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).