inspirer

English

Etymology

From inspire ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

inspirer (plural inspirers)

1. Someone who inspires.
   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 123:

     Iamus, the legendary ancestor of this priestly house, was a son of Apollo, the god of divination, and inspirer of the great oracle at Delphi.

Translations

someone who inspires

• German: Inspirator m, Inspiratorin f
• Greek: εμπνευστής (el) m (empnefstís)
• Latvian: inspirators m, inspiratore f
• Macedonian: вдахно́вител m (vdahnóvitel), вдахнови́телка f (vdahnovítelka), вдахно́вувач m (vdahnóvuvač), вдахнову́вачка f (vdahnovúvačka)
• Russian: вдохнови́тель (ru) m (vdoxnovítelʹ), вдохнови́тельница (ru) f (vdoxnovítelʹnica)
• Spanish: inspirador (es) m, inspiradora (es) f
• Swedish: inspiratör (sv) c

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspīrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/

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Verb

inspirer

1. to breathe in

   Coordinate term: expirer

2. to inspire

   inspirer confiance à quelqu’un ― to inspire confidence in someone, to inspire trust in someone

   Ça ne m’inspire guère confiance. ― That doesn't inspire much confidence in me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of inspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inspirer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inspirant /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		inspiré /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspires /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspirons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	inspirez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/	inspirent /ɛ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect	inspirais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirait /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	inspiriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁje/	inspiraient /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	inspirai /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/	inspiras /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspira /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspirâmes /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁam/	inspirâtes /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁat/	inspirèrent /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	inspirerai /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	inspireras /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	inspirera /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	inspirerons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	inspirerez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	inspireront /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inspirerais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerait /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	inspireriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁje/	inspireraient /ɛ̃s.pi.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	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspires /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspirions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	inspiriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁje/	inspirent /ɛ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect2	inspirasse /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/	inspirasses /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/	inspirât /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspirassions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	inspirassiez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sje/	inspirassent /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	—	inspirons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	inspirez /ɛ̃s.pi.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: 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

• inspiration

See also

• respirer

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

īnspīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnspīrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

inspirer

1. imperative of inspirere