tramer

French

Etymology

From trame +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.me/

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Verb

tramer

1. to weave
2. (figurative) to hatch, think up, come up with
   • 2019, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad, La fille de Vercingétorix [Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter] (Astérix), Vanves: Les Éditions Albert René, →ISBN, page 19:

     Ces mines réjouies… Ils ont l'air de tramer quelque chose !

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Conjugation

Conjugation of tramer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tramer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tramant /tʁa.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tramé /tʁa.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trame /tʁam/	trames /tʁam/	trame /tʁam/	tramons /tʁa.mɔ̃/	tramez /tʁa.me/	trament /tʁam/
	imperfect	tramais /tʁa.mɛ/	tramais /tʁa.mɛ/	tramait /tʁa.mɛ/	tramions /tʁa.mjɔ̃/	tramiez /tʁa.mje/	tramaient /tʁa.mɛ/
	past historic2	tramai /tʁa.me/	tramas /tʁa.ma/	trama /tʁa.ma/	tramâmes /tʁa.mam/	tramâtes /tʁa.mat/	tramèrent /tʁa.mɛʁ/
	future	tramerai /tʁam.ʁe/	trameras /tʁam.ʁa/	tramera /tʁam.ʁa/	tramerons /tʁam.ʁɔ̃/	tramerez /tʁam.ʁe/	trameront /tʁam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tramerais /tʁam.ʁɛ/	tramerais /tʁam.ʁɛ/	tramerait /tʁam.ʁɛ/	tramerions /tʁa.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	trameriez /tʁa.mə.ʁje/	trameraient /tʁam.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	trame /tʁam/	trames /tʁam/	trame /tʁam/	tramions /tʁa.mjɔ̃/	tramiez /tʁa.mje/	trament /tʁam/
	imperfect2	tramasse /tʁa.mas/	tramasses /tʁa.mas/	tramât /tʁa.ma/	tramassions /tʁa.ma.sjɔ̃/	tramassiez /tʁa.ma.sje/	tramassent /tʁa.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trame /tʁam/	—	tramons /tʁa.mɔ̃/	tramez /tʁa.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

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