alarmer

English

Etymology

From alarm +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (measurement suffix).

Noun

alarmer (plural alarmers)

1. One who alarms; one who sounds the alarm.
2. (US, in combination) A multialarm fire of a specified number of alarms.
   • 1991, Leonard Victor Huber, New Orleans: a pictorial history, page 277:

     This three-alarmer brought out no fewer than seven steam pumpers, which are drawing water from a fire cistern...

   • 2007, Flora Ann Scearce, Cotton Mill Girl, page 118:

     “A two-alarmer,” someone commented. “Must be a nasty one.” We slurped our soda and ran for the trolley. “Fire's in Loray,” the motorman told us as he rang his bell.

Anagrams

• Lamarre

French

Etymology

From alarme +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.laʁ.me/

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Verb

alarmer

1. to alarm (alert)

Conjugation

Conjugation of alarmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alarmer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alarmant /a.laʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alarmé /a.laʁ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	alarme /a.laʁm/	alarmes /a.laʁm/	alarme /a.laʁm/	alarmons /a.laʁ.mɔ̃/	alarmez /a.laʁ.me/	alarment /a.laʁm/
	imperfect	alarmais /a.laʁ.mɛ/	alarmais /a.laʁ.mɛ/	alarmait /a.laʁ.mɛ/	alarmions /a.laʁ.mjɔ̃/	alarmiez /a.laʁ.mje/	alarmaient /a.laʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	alarmai /a.laʁ.me/	alarmas /a.laʁ.ma/	alarma /a.laʁ.ma/	alarmâmes /a.laʁ.mam/	alarmâtes /a.laʁ.mat/	alarmèrent /a.laʁ.mɛʁ/
	future	alarmerai /a.laʁ.mə.ʁe/	alarmeras /a.laʁ.mə.ʁa/	alarmera /a.laʁ.mə.ʁa/	alarmerons /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/	alarmerez /a.laʁ.mə.ʁe/	alarmeront /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alarmerais /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	alarmerais /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	alarmerait /a.laʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	alarmerions /a.laʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	alarmeriez /a.laʁ.mə.ʁje/	alarmeraient /a.laʁ.mə.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	alarme /a.laʁm/	alarmes /a.laʁm/	alarme /a.laʁm/	alarmions /a.laʁ.mjɔ̃/	alarmiez /a.laʁ.mje/	alarment /a.laʁm/
	imperfect2	alarmasse /a.laʁ.mas/	alarmasses /a.laʁ.mas/	alarmât /a.laʁ.ma/	alarmassions /a.laʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/	alarmassiez /a.laʁ.ma.sje/	alarmassent /a.laʁ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	alarme /a.laʁm/	—	alarmons /a.laʁ.mɔ̃/	alarmez /a.laʁ.me/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “alarmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

alarmer m

1. indefinite plural of alarm

Verb

alarmer

1. imperative of alarmere