ambrer

French

Etymology

From ambre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ambrer

1. to perfume with ambergris

Conjugation

Conjugation of ambrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ambrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ambrant /ɑ̃.bʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ambré /ɑ̃.bʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ambre /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambres /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambre /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambrons /ɑ̃.bʁɔ̃/	ambrez /ɑ̃.bʁe/	ambrent /ɑ̃bʁ/
	imperfect	ambrais /ɑ̃.bʁɛ/	ambrais /ɑ̃.bʁɛ/	ambrait /ɑ̃.bʁɛ/	ambrions /ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ̃/	ambriez /ɑ̃.bʁi.je/	ambraient /ɑ̃.bʁɛ/
	past historic2	ambrai /ɑ̃.bʁe/	ambras /ɑ̃.bʁa/	ambra /ɑ̃.bʁa/	ambrâmes /ɑ̃.bʁam/	ambrâtes /ɑ̃.bʁat/	ambrèrent /ɑ̃.bʁɛʁ/
	future	ambrerai /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁe/	ambreras /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁa/	ambrera /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁa/	ambrerons /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ambrerez /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁe/	ambreront /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ambrerais /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁɛ/	ambrerais /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁɛ/	ambrerait /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁɛ/	ambrerions /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ambreriez /ɑ̃.bʁə.ʁje/	ambreraient /ɑ̃.bʁə.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	ambre /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambres /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambre /ɑ̃bʁ/	ambrions /ɑ̃.bʁi.jɔ̃/	ambriez /ɑ̃.bʁi.je/	ambrent /ɑ̃bʁ/
	imperfect2	ambrasse /ɑ̃.bʁas/	ambrasses /ɑ̃.bʁas/	ambrât /ɑ̃.bʁa/	ambrassions /ɑ̃.bʁa.sjɔ̃/	ambrassiez /ɑ̃.bʁa.sje/	ambrassent /ɑ̃.bʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ambre /ɑ̃bʁ/	—	ambrons /ɑ̃.bʁɔ̃/	ambrez /ɑ̃.bʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• bramer, marbre, marbré