attirer (pluralattirers)
Inherited fromMiddle French, fromOld Frenchatirer,atirier(“to draw to oneself”), froma- +tirer(“to draw, pull out with great effort, snatch violently, tear away”), fromGothic*𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽(*tiran,“to tear away, remove”), fromProto-Germanic*teraną(“to tear, tear apart”), fromProto-Indo-European*derə-(“to tear, tear apart”). Bysurface analysis,a- +tirer. More attirer.
attirer
| infinitive | simple | attirer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | 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 ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + 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 ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attire /a.tiʁ/ | — | attirons /a.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | attirez /a.ti.ʁe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
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). | |||||||