transforme

Transforme is a form of the French verb transformer. It can appear as the present-tense form meaning “he/she/it transforms” (il transforme, elle transforme) and as the imperative form for the informal singular command “Transforme!” used to tell someone to transform something. The same root also yields forms such as transforme in other tenses and moods (for example, the subjunctive mood appears as que je transforme, que tu transformes, qu’il/elle transforme). In grammar notes, transformé is the past participle and transformant the present participle, while transformateur can refer to a device that performs transformation.

The word rarely functions as a standalone noun in French. When speakers refer to the mathematical or signal-processing notion of a transform, the noun form used is typically transformée (with the feminine e) as in transformée de Fourier or transformée de Laplace. The concept denotes a map or operation that converts a function into another domain, often simplifying analysis or computation. The related adjectives and phrases describe properties of the transformation, such as linearité or invariance.

Etymology traces transforme to the Latin transformare, meaning to change the shape of. The term appears across French, Italian, Spanish and other Romance languages, reflecting a common root for operations that modify or convert from one form to another.

In usage, transforme commonly appears in everyday French as a verb form and in written contexts as part of compound tenses. In specialized domains such as mathematics, physics and engineering, the noun transformée is the standard term for a formal transform, while the verb remains the general means to alter or convert content.