-âmes
French, suffix
-âmes is spelled Â-M-E-S (4 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,851st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -âmes is a French suffix meaning “forms the first-person plural past historic of -er verbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, âmes is a different word: “plural of âme”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désinence servant à former la première personne du pluriel du passé simple des verbes du premier groupe”.
What does -âmes mean in English?
suffix
- 1
forms the first-person plural past historic of -er verbs
noun
- 1
feminineplural of âme
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Désinence servant à former la première personne du pluriel du passé simple des verbes du premier groupe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is -âmes in French?
-âmes appears 12 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).