ramoner
See also: ramonner
French
FWOTD – 27 May 2013
Etymology
Inherited from Old French ramoner, ramon (“broom”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.mɔ.ne/
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Verb
ramoner
- (transitive) to sweep a chimney
- 1874, Jules Verne, chapter 18, in Agnes Kinloch Kingston, transl., L’Île mystérieuse, Jules Hetzel et Cie, part 3, page 568; republished as The Mysterious Island, 1875:
- — On devrait bien ramoner les volcans, fit observer Nab, qui sembla parler le plus sérieusement du monde.
- "The volcanoes ought to be swept," observed Neb, who spoke as if perfectly serious.
- (vulgar) to fuck
- 1798, Rétif de La Bretonne, chapter 38, in L’Anti-Justine:
- » Après nos couches, nous avons prié mon père de nous choisir de jolis petits garçons non pubères, mais bandant raide, pour nous ramoner le con. Ces enfants, dont les petits vits huilés entraient calottés, ne déchargeaient pas, et cependant farfouillaient dans le con. »
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2006, “Simplement Le Meilleur”, in Pour les filles vol. 2, performed by Cuizinier:
- Moi j’suis sur l’podium en train d’soulever la coupe / Pendant qu’t’es en train de te faire ramoner sous la douche
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of ramoner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ramoner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ramonant /ʁa.mɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ramoné /ʁa.mɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ramone /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramones /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramone /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramonons /ʁa.mɔ.nɔ̃/ |
ramonez /ʁa.mɔ.ne/ |
ramonent /ʁa.mɔn/ |
| imperfect | ramonais /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/ |
ramonais /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/ |
ramonait /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/ |
ramonions /ʁa.mɔ.njɔ̃/ |
ramoniez /ʁa.mɔ.nje/ |
ramonaient /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ramonai /ʁa.mɔ.ne/ |
ramonas /ʁa.mɔ.na/ |
ramona /ʁa.mɔ.na/ |
ramonâmes /ʁa.mɔ.nam/ |
ramonâtes /ʁa.mɔ.nat/ |
ramonèrent /ʁa.mɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | ramonerai /ʁa.mɔn.ʁe/ |
ramoneras /ʁa.mɔn.ʁa/ |
ramonera /ʁa.mɔn.ʁa/ |
ramonerons /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
ramonerez /ʁa.mɔn.ʁe/ |
ramoneront /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ramonerais /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/ |
ramonerais /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/ |
ramonerait /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/ |
ramonerions /ʁa.mɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ramoneriez /ʁa.mɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
ramoneraient /ʁa.mɔn.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 | ramone /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramones /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramone /ʁa.mɔn/ |
ramonions /ʁa.mɔ.njɔ̃/ |
ramoniez /ʁa.mɔ.nje/ |
ramonent /ʁa.mɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | ramonasse /ʁa.mɔ.nas/ |
ramonasses /ʁa.mɔ.nas/ |
ramonât /ʁa.mɔ.na/ |
ramonassions /ʁa.mɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
ramonassiez /ʁa.mɔ.na.sje/ |
ramonassent /ʁa.mɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ramone /ʁa.mɔn/ |
— | ramonons /ʁa.mɔ.nɔ̃/ |
ramonez /ʁa.mɔ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ramoner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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