camer

French

Etymology 1

Denominal from came (“drug”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.me/

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Verb

camer

1. (reflexive, se camer) to take drugs

   Synonyms: se droguer; (Ivory Coast) se gbaner

Conjugation

Conjugation of camer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	camer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	camant /ka.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		camé /ka.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	came /kam/	cames /kam/	came /kam/	camons /ka.mɔ̃/	camez /ka.me/	cament /kam/
	imperfect	camais /ka.mɛ/	camais /ka.mɛ/	camait /ka.mɛ/	camions /ka.mjɔ̃/	camiez /ka.mje/	camaient /ka.mɛ/
	past historic2	camai /ka.me/	camas /ka.ma/	cama /ka.ma/	camâmes /ka.mam/	camâtes /ka.mat/	camèrent /ka.mɛʁ/
	future	camerai /kam.ʁe/	cameras /kam.ʁa/	camera /kam.ʁa/	camerons /kam.ʁɔ̃/	camerez /kam.ʁe/	cameront /kam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	camerais /kam.ʁɛ/	camerais /kam.ʁɛ/	camerait /kam.ʁɛ/	camerions /ka.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	cameriez /ka.mə.ʁje/	cameraient /kam.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	came /kam/	cames /kam/	came /kam/	camions /ka.mjɔ̃/	camiez /ka.mje/	cament /kam/
	imperfect2	camasse /ka.mas/	camasses /ka.mas/	camât /ka.ma/	camassions /ka.ma.sjɔ̃/	camassiez /ka.ma.sje/	camassent /ka.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	came /kam/	—	camons /ka.mɔ̃/	camez /ka.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).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.mɛʁ/

Noun

camer m (plural camers)

1. (slang) Cameroonian
   • 2018 August 4, Lasko Kelvin (lyrics and music), “3 Minutes Chrono”‎^[1], from 1:22:

     Ouais fait beleck a la came ouais fait beleck a la came
     Pour mes maliens et mes camers descente dans ta tess on arrive en camion
     Sur le tec’ y’a mon gars Kama des geush de beuh une dizaine de camés

     Keep care of your stuff, keep care of your stuff, aye, aye
     For my Malians and my Cameroonians descend into the ends in a truck,
     Into the dormitory town, there is my man Kama from the hemp nitties, a dozen of druggies.

Anagrams

• créma

Kashubian

camer

Etymology

Borrowed from Old High German zimber／zumer／zumber. Compare German Zimmer (“room”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.mɛr/
• Rhymes: -amɛr
• Syllabification: ca‧mer

Noun

camer m inan

1. stump (trunk of a tree)

   Synonym: róna

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893] “camer”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
• Sychta, Bernard (1976) “cåmer”, in Słownik gwar kaszubskich [Dictionary of Kashubian dialects] (in Polish), volume 7 (Suplement), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 33
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “kłoda”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kłoda”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “camer”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022