blasphémer

See also: blasphemer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin blasphēmāre, present active infinitive of blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blâmer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /blas.fe.me/
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Verb

blasphémer

to blaspheme

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written blasphémer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written blasphèmer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of blasphémer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		blasphémer			avoir blasphémé
gerund		en blasphémant			en ayant blasphémé
present participle		blasphémant /blas.fe.mɑ̃/
past participle		blasphémé /blas.fe.me/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphèmes /blas.fɛm/	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphémons /blas.fe.mɔ̃/	blasphémez /blas.fe.me/	blasphèment /blas.fɛm/
	imperfect	blasphémais /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémais /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémait /blas.fe.mɛ/	blasphémions /blas.fe.mjɔ̃/	blasphémiez /blas.fe.mje/	blasphémaient /blas.fe.mɛ/
	past historic¹	blasphémai /blas.fe.me/	blasphémas /blas.fe.ma/	blasphéma /blas.fe.ma/	blasphémâmes /blas.fe.mam/	blasphémâtes /blas.fe.mat/	blasphémèrent /blas.fe.mɛʁ/
	future	blasphèmerai or blasphémerai /blas.fɛm.ʁe/	blasphèmeras or blasphémeras /blas.fɛm.ʁa/	blasphèmera or blasphémera /blas.fɛm.ʁa/	blasphèmerons or blasphémerons /blas.fɛm.ʁɔ̃/	blasphèmerez or blasphémerez /blas.fɛm.ʁe/	blasphèmeront or blasphémeront /blas.fɛm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blasphèmerais or blasphémerais /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerais or blasphémerais /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerait or blasphémerait /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/	blasphèmerions or blasphémerions /blas.fɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	blasphèmeriez or blasphémeriez /blas.fɛ.mə.ʁje/	blasphèmeraient or blasphémeraient /blas.fɛm.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphèmes /blas.fɛm/	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	blasphémions /blas.fe.mjɔ̃/	blasphémiez /blas.fe.mje/	blasphèment /blas.fɛm/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	blasphémasse /blas.fe.mas/	blasphémasses /blas.fe.mas/	blasphémât /blas.fe.ma/	blasphémassions /blas.fe.ma.sjɔ̃/	blasphémassiez /blas.fe.ma.sje/	blasphémassent /blas.fe.mas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	blasphème /blas.fɛm/	—	blasphémons /blas.fe.mɔ̃/	blasphémez /blas.fe.me/	—
¹literary tenses