damer

Danish

Noun

damer

1. indefinite plural of dame

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.me/

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Etymology 1

From dame (“queen (in chess)”).

Verb

damer

1. (chess, transitive) to queen (transform a pawn into a queen, by advancing it to the opponent's side of the board)
2. (checkers, transitive) to crown, to king

Conjugation

Conjugation of damer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	damer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	damant /da.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		damé /da.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dame /dam/	dames /dam/	dame /dam/	damons /da.mɔ̃/	damez /da.me/	dament /dam/
	imperfect	damais /da.mɛ/	damais /da.mɛ/	damait /da.mɛ/	damions /da.mjɔ̃/	damiez /da.mje/	damaient /da.mɛ/
	past historic2	damai /da.me/	damas /da.ma/	dama /da.ma/	damâmes /da.mam/	damâtes /da.mat/	damèrent /da.mɛʁ/
	future	damerai /dam.ʁe/	dameras /dam.ʁa/	damera /dam.ʁa/	damerons /dam.ʁɔ̃/	damerez /dam.ʁe/	dameront /dam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	damerais /dam.ʁɛ/	damerais /dam.ʁɛ/	damerait /dam.ʁɛ/	damerions /da.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	dameriez /da.mə.ʁje/	dameraient /dam.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	dame /dam/	dames /dam/	dame /dam/	damions /da.mjɔ̃/	damiez /da.mje/	dament /dam/
	imperfect2	damasse /da.mas/	damasses /da.mas/	damât /da.ma/	damassions /da.ma.sjɔ̃/	damassiez /da.ma.sje/	damassent /da.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dame /dam/	—	damons /da.mɔ̃/	damez /da.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

• damer le pion

Etymology 2

From dame (“beetle, rammer”).

Verb

damer

1. (transitive) to pat down, to pat, pack down
2. (transitive) to groom (snow)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• drame, marde, merda

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

damer m or f

1. indefinite plural of dame

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

damer f

1. indefinite plural of dame

Swedish

Noun

damer

1. indefinite plural of dam

Anagrams

• medar