attirer
English
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French atirer, atirier (“to draw to oneself”), from a- + tirer (“to draw, pull out with great effort, snatch violently, tear away”), from Gothic *𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”), equivalent to a- + tirer. More at tirer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ti.ʁe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of attirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | attirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attirant /a.ti.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attiré /a.ti.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | attire /a.tiʁ/ |
attires /a.tiʁ/ |
attire /a.tiʁ/ |
attirons /a.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
attirez /a.ti.ʁe/ |
attirent /a.tiʁ/ |
| imperfect | attirais /a.ti.ʁɛ/ |
attirais /a.ti.ʁɛ/ |
attirait /a.ti.ʁɛ/ |
attirions /a.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attiriez /a.ti.ʁje/ |
attiraient /a.ti.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attirai /a.ti.ʁe/ |
attiras /a.ti.ʁa/ |
attira /a.ti.ʁa/ |
attirâmes /a.ti.ʁam/ |
attirâtes /a.ti.ʁat/ |
attirèrent /a.ti.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | attirerai /a.ti.ʁə.ʁe/ |
attireras /a.ti.ʁə.ʁa/ |
attirera /a.ti.ʁə.ʁa/ |
attirerons /a.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
attirerez /a.ti.ʁə.ʁe/ |
attireront /a.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attirerais /a.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
attirerais /a.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
attirerait /a.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
attirerions /a.ti.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attireriez /a.ti.ʁə.ʁje/ |
attireraient /a.ti.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 | attire /a.tiʁ/ |
attires /a.tiʁ/ |
attire /a.tiʁ/ |
attirions /a.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attiriez /a.ti.ʁje/ |
attirent /a.tiʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | attirasse /a.ti.ʁas/ |
attirasses /a.ti.ʁas/ |
attirât /a.ti.ʁa/ |
attirassions /a.ti.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
attirassiez /a.ti.ʁa.sje/ |
attirassent /a.ti.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attire /a.tiʁ/ |
— | attirons /a.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
attirez /a.ti.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “attirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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