admirer
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editadmirer (plural admirers)
- One who admires.
- Deven is an enthusiastic admirer of The Beatles.
- One who is romantically attracted to someone.
- Although he has a number of admirers, he prefers to remain single.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editone who admires
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Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French admirer, relatinized spelling of older amirer (14th c.), borrowed from Latin admīrārī. The restored ⟨d⟩ was silent at first, but came to be pronounced since at least the 18th century.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editadmirer
- to admire
Conjugation
editConjugation of admirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | admirer | |||||
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compound | avoir past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | admirant /ad.mi.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant past participle | ||||||
past participle | admiré /ad.mi.ʁe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | admire /ad.miʁ/ |
admires /ad.miʁ/ |
admire /ad.miʁ/ |
admirons /ad.mi.ʁɔ̃/ |
admirez /ad.mi.ʁe/ |
admirent /ad.miʁ/ |
imperfect | admirais /ad.mi.ʁɛ/ |
admirais /ad.mi.ʁɛ/ |
admirait /ad.mi.ʁɛ/ |
admirions /ad.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
admiriez /ad.mi.ʁje/ |
admiraient /ad.mi.ʁɛ/ | |
past historic2 | admirai /ad.mi.ʁe/ |
admiras /ad.mi.ʁa/ |
admira /ad.mi.ʁa/ |
admirâmes /ad.mi.ʁam/ |
admirâtes /ad.mi.ʁat/ |
admirèrent /ad.mi.ʁɛʁ/ | |
future | admirerai /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
admireras /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
admirera /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁa/ |
admirerons /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
admirerez /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁe/ |
admireront /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | admirerais /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
admirerais /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
admirerait /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
admirerions /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
admireriez /ad.mi.ʁə.ʁje/ |
admireraient /ad.mi.ʁə.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 | admire /ad.miʁ/ |
admires /ad.miʁ/ |
admire /ad.miʁ/ |
admirions /ad.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
admiriez /ad.mi.ʁje/ |
admirent /ad.miʁ/ |
imperfect2 | admirasse /ad.mi.ʁas/ |
admirasses /ad.mi.ʁas/ |
admirât /ad.mi.ʁa/ |
admirassions /ad.mi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
admirassiez /ad.mi.ʁa.sje/ |
admirassent /ad.mi.ʁas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | admire /ad.miʁ/ |
— | admirons /ad.mi.ʁɔ̃/ |
admirez /ad.mi.ʁe/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Franco-Provençal: admirar
Further reading
edit- “admirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editadmīrer
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