ramper (plural rampers)
Inherited from Middle French ramper, from Old French ramper (“to crawl up, climb”), from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn, from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to shrink up, shrivel”).
ramper
| infinitive | simple | ramper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rampant /ʁɑ̃.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rampé /ʁɑ̃.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rampe /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampes /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampe /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampons /ʁɑ̃.pɔ̃/ |
rampez /ʁɑ̃.pe/ |
rampent /ʁɑ̃p/ |
| imperfect | rampais /ʁɑ̃.pɛ/ |
rampais /ʁɑ̃.pɛ/ |
rampait /ʁɑ̃.pɛ/ |
rampions /ʁɑ̃.pjɔ̃/ |
rampiez /ʁɑ̃.pje/ |
rampaient /ʁɑ̃.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rampai /ʁɑ̃.pe/ |
rampas /ʁɑ̃.pa/ |
rampa /ʁɑ̃.pa/ |
rampâmes /ʁɑ̃.pam/ |
rampâtes /ʁɑ̃.pat/ |
rampèrent /ʁɑ̃.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | ramperai /ʁɑ̃.pʁe/ |
ramperas /ʁɑ̃.pʁa/ |
rampera /ʁɑ̃.pʁa/ |
ramperons /ʁɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/ |
ramperez /ʁɑ̃.pʁe/ |
ramperont /ʁɑ̃.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ramperais /ʁɑ̃.pʁɛ/ |
ramperais /ʁɑ̃.pʁɛ/ |
ramperait /ʁɑ̃.pʁɛ/ |
ramperions /ʁɑ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ramperiez /ʁɑ̃.pə.ʁje/ |
ramperaient /ʁɑ̃.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rampe /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampes /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampe /ʁɑ̃p/ |
rampions /ʁɑ̃.pjɔ̃/ |
rampiez /ʁɑ̃.pje/ |
rampent /ʁɑ̃p/ |
| imperfect2 | rampasse /ʁɑ̃.pas/ |
rampasses /ʁɑ̃.pas/ |
rampât /ʁɑ̃.pa/ |
rampassions /ʁɑ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
rampassiez /ʁɑ̃.pa.sje/ |
rampassent /ʁɑ̃.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rampe /ʁɑ̃p/ |
— | rampons /ʁɑ̃.pɔ̃/ |
rampez /ʁɑ̃.pe/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
ramper m or f
ramper m or f
Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *hrimpan, *hrempaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb- (“to turn, bend, shrink, rotate, touch, attack”); see also *hrapōną (“to graze, scrape”).
ramper
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-mps, *-mpt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | ramper | avoir rampé | |||||
| gerund | en rampant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | rampant | ||||||
| past participle | rampé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | ramp | rampes | rampe | rampons | rampez | rampent |
| imperfect | rampoie, rampeie, rampoe, rampeve | rampoies, rampeies, rampoes, rampeves | rampoit, rampeit, rampot, rampeve | rampiiens, rampiens | rampiiez, rampiez | rampoient, rampeient, rampoent, rampevent | |
| preterite | rampai | rampas | rampa | rampames | rampastes | ramperent | |
| future | ramperai | ramperas | rampera | ramperons | ramperoiz, rampereiz, ramperez | ramperont | |
| conditional | ramperoie, rampereie | ramperoies, rampereies | ramperoit, rampereit | ramperiiens, ramperiens | ramperiiez, ramperiez | ramperoient, rampereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | ramp | rans | rant | rampons | rampez | rampent |
| imperfect | rampasse | rampasses | rampast | rampissons, rampissiens | rampissoiz, rampissez, rampissiez | rampassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | rampe | — | rampons | rampez | — | ||