ramer
French, verb/ʁa.me/
ramer is a French verb meaning “to row” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manœuvrer la rame”.
What does ramer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to row
- 2
informalto have a hard time (be in difficulties)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manœuvrer la rame. 2. Avoir de la difficulté, manquer de rapidité ou d'efficacité pour faire quelque chose. 3. Procéder à une manœuvre de ravitaillement à la mer, particulièrement entre un navire de guerre et un pétrolier-ravitailleur.
verb: 1. Soutenir avec des rames des pois ou quelque autre plante grimpante.
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.
Forms of ramer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ramant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ramé participle past
- rame first-person indicative present
- rames indicative present second-person
- ramons first-person indicative plural
- ramez indicative plural present
- rament indicative plural present
- ramais first-person imperfect indicative
- ramait imperfect indicative singular
- ramions first-person imperfect indicative
- ramiez imperfect indicative plural
- ramaient imperfect indicative plural
- ramai first-person historic indicative
- ramas historic indicative past
- rama historic indicative past
- ramâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ramer?
- /ʁa.me/
- \ʁa.me\
- [ʁa.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ramer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ramer in French?
ramer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).