paumer

French

Etymology

From paume. Cognate to English palm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po.me/

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Verb

paumer

1. (obsolete) to strike, hit
2. (colloquial) to lose

Conjugation

Conjugation of paumer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	paumer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paumant /po.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paumé /po.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	paume /pom/	paumes /pom/	paume /pom/	paumons /po.mɔ̃/	paumez /po.me/	paument /pom/
	imperfect	paumais /po.mɛ/	paumais /po.mɛ/	paumait /po.mɛ/	paumions /po.mjɔ̃/	paumiez /po.mje/	paumaient /po.mɛ/
	past historic2	paumai /po.me/	paumas /po.ma/	pauma /po.ma/	paumâmes /po.mam/	paumâtes /po.mat/	paumèrent /po.mɛʁ/
	future	paumerai /pom.ʁe/	paumeras /pom.ʁa/	paumera /pom.ʁa/	paumerons /pom.ʁɔ̃/	paumerez /pom.ʁe/	paumeront /pom.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paumerais /pom.ʁɛ/	paumerais /pom.ʁɛ/	paumerait /pom.ʁɛ/	paumerions /po.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	paumeriez /po.mə.ʁje/	paumeraient /pom.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	paume /pom/	paumes /pom/	paume /pom/	paumions /po.mjɔ̃/	paumiez /po.mje/	paument /pom/
	imperfect2	paumasse /po.mas/	paumasses /po.mas/	paumât /po.ma/	paumassions /po.ma.sjɔ̃/	paumassiez /po.ma.sje/	paumassent /po.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	paume /pom/	—	paumons /po.mɔ̃/	paumez /po.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).

Further reading

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