admirer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
admirer (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
Translations
one who admires
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From 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.
Cognate with Catalan admirar, Corsican ammirate, Galician admirar, Italian ammirare, Occitan admirar, Portuguese admirar, Romanian admira, Sardinian ammirai, ammirare, Sicilian ammirari, Spanish admirar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ad.mi.ʁe/
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Verb
admirer
- to admire
Conjugation
Conjugation of admirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | admirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Descendants
- → Franco-Provençal: admirar
Further reading
- “admirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
admīrer
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of admīror