ramoner

See also: ramonner

French

FWOTD – 27 May 2013

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ramoner, ramon (“broom”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.mɔ.ne/

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Verb

ramoner

1. (transitive) to sweep a chimney
   • 1874, Jules Verne, chapter 18, in Agnes Kinloch Kingston, transl., L’Île mystérieuse, Jules Hetzel et Cie, part 3, page 568; republished as The Mysterious Island, 1875:

     — On devrait bien ramoner les volcans, fit observer Nab, qui sembla parler le plus sérieusement du monde.

     "The volcanoes ought to be swept," observed Neb, who spoke as if perfectly serious.

2. (vulgar) to fuck
   • 1798, Rétif de La Bretonne, chapter 38, in L’Anti-Justine:

     » Après nos couches, nous avons prié mon père de nous choisir de jolis petits garçons non pubères, mais bandant raide, pour nous ramoner le con. Ces enfants, dont les petits vits huilés entraient calottés, ne déchargeaient pas, et cependant farfouillaient dans le con. »

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2006, “Simplement Le Meilleur”, in Pour les filles vol. 2, performed by Cuizinier:

     Moi j’suis sur l’podium en train d’soulever la coupe / Pendant qu’t’es en train de te faire ramoner sous la douche

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ramoner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ramoner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ramonant /ʁa.mɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ramoné /ʁa.mɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ramone /ʁa.mɔn/	ramones /ʁa.mɔn/	ramone /ʁa.mɔn/	ramonons /ʁa.mɔ.nɔ̃/	ramonez /ʁa.mɔ.ne/	ramonent /ʁa.mɔn/
	imperfect	ramonais /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/	ramonais /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/	ramonait /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/	ramonions /ʁa.mɔ.njɔ̃/	ramoniez /ʁa.mɔ.nje/	ramonaient /ʁa.mɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ramonai /ʁa.mɔ.ne/	ramonas /ʁa.mɔ.na/	ramona /ʁa.mɔ.na/	ramonâmes /ʁa.mɔ.nam/	ramonâtes /ʁa.mɔ.nat/	ramonèrent /ʁa.mɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	ramonerai /ʁa.mɔn.ʁe/	ramoneras /ʁa.mɔn.ʁa/	ramonera /ʁa.mɔn.ʁa/	ramonerons /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɔ̃/	ramonerez /ʁa.mɔn.ʁe/	ramoneront /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ramonerais /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/	ramonerais /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/	ramonerait /ʁa.mɔn.ʁɛ/	ramonerions /ʁa.mɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ramoneriez /ʁa.mɔ.nə.ʁje/	ramoneraient /ʁa.mɔn.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	ramone /ʁa.mɔn/	ramones /ʁa.mɔn/	ramone /ʁa.mɔn/	ramonions /ʁa.mɔ.njɔ̃/	ramoniez /ʁa.mɔ.nje/	ramonent /ʁa.mɔn/
	imperfect2	ramonasse /ʁa.mɔ.nas/	ramonasses /ʁa.mɔ.nas/	ramonât /ʁa.mɔ.na/	ramonassions /ʁa.mɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	ramonassiez /ʁa.mɔ.na.sje/	ramonassent /ʁa.mɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ramone /ʁa.mɔn/	—	ramonons /ʁa.mɔ.nɔ̃/	ramonez /ʁa.mɔ.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ramonage
• ramoneur

Further reading

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