ramener
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁam.ne/
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Verb
ramener
- (transitive) to take back, bring back, restore
- (transitive) to draw, pull (back)
- (reflexive) to come down, be reduced (à to)
- (reflexive, informal) to roll up, to get one's butt somewhere
- Synonym: débarquer
- Il s'est ramené sans prévenir. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Ramène-toi ! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il ramène rather than *il ramene. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of ramener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | ramenant /ʁam.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | ramené /ʁam.ne/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | ramener | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | ramenant /ʁam.nɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | ramène /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramènes /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramène /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramenons /ʁam.nɔ̃/ |
ramenez /ʁam.ne/ |
ramènent /ʁa.mɛn/ |
| imperfect | ramenais /ʁam.nɛ/ |
ramenais /ʁam.nɛ/ |
ramenait /ʁam.nɛ/ |
ramenions /ʁa.mə.njɔ̃/ |
rameniez /ʁa.mə.nje/ |
ramenaient /ʁam.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ramenai /ʁam.ne/ |
ramenas /ʁam.na/ |
ramena /ʁam.na/ |
ramenâmes /ʁam.nam/ |
ramenâtes /ʁam.nat/ |
ramenèrent /ʁam.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | ramènerai /ʁa.mɛn.ʁe/ |
ramèneras /ʁa.mɛn.ʁa/ |
ramènera /ʁa.mɛn.ʁa/ |
ramènerons /ʁa.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
ramènerez /ʁa.mɛn.ʁe/ |
ramèneront /ʁa.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ramènerais /ʁa.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
ramènerais /ʁa.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
ramènerait /ʁa.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
ramènerions /ʁa.mɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ramèneriez /ʁa.mɛ.nə.ʁje/ |
ramèneraient /ʁa.mɛn.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 | ramène /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramènes /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramène /ʁa.mɛn/ |
ramenions /ʁa.mə.njɔ̃/ |
rameniez /ʁa.mə.nje/ |
ramènent /ʁa.mɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | ramenasse /ʁam.nas/ |
ramenasses /ʁam.nas/ |
ramenât /ʁam.na/ |
ramenassions /ʁam.na.sjɔ̃/ |
ramenassiez /ʁam.na.sje/ |
ramenassent /ʁam.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ramène /ʁa.mɛn/ |
— | ramenons /ʁam.nɔ̃/ |
ramenez /ʁam.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ramener” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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