admirer

English

Etymology

admire +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ədˈmaɪ.ɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ædˈmaɪɚ.ɹɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

admirer (plural admirers)

1. One who admires.
2. One who is romantically attracted to someone.

   Although he has a number of admirers, he prefers to remain single.

Derived terms

• secret admirer

Translations

one who admires

• Albanian: admirues (sq) m, admiruese f
• Asturian: almirador m, almiradora f
• Bulgarian: поклонник (bg) (poklonnik), обожател (bg) (obožatel)
• Catalan: admirador m, admiradora f
• Czech: obdivovatel m
• Danish: beundrer c
• Dutch: bewonderaar (nl) m, bewonderaarster (nl) f
• Esperanto: admiranto
• Finnish: ihailija (fi)
• French: admirateur (fr) m, admiratrice (fr) f
• Galician: admirador m, admiradora f
• Georgian: თაყვანისმცემელი (taq̇vanismcemeli), მათაყვანებელი (mataq̇vanebeli), მოთაყვანე (motaq̇vane), მაღმერთებელი (maɣmertebeli), მოტრფიალე (moṭrpiale), მოყვარული (moq̇varuli), მიჯნური (miǯnuri)
• German: Bewunderer (de) m, Bewundrerin f, Bewunderin (de) f
• Hungarian: csodáló (hu)
• Italian: ammiratore (it) m, ammiratrice f
• Latin: admīrātor m, admīrātrix f, fautor m, fautrix f
• Macedonian: обожа́вател m (obožávatel), обожава́телка f (obožavátelka), обо́жувач m (obóžuvač), обожу́вачка f (obožúvačka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beundrer m

  Nynorsk: beundrar m

• Polish: wielbiciel (pl) m, wielbicielka (pl) f, admirator (pl) m (literary), admiratorka (pl) f (literary)
• Portuguese: admirador (pt) m, admiradora f
• Russian: покло́нник (ru) m (poklónnik), покло́нница (ru) f (poklónnica), почита́тель (ru) m (počitátelʹ), почита́тельница (ru) f (počitátelʹnica), обожа́тель (ru) m (obožátelʹ), обожа́тельница (ru) f (obožátelʹnica)
• Spanish: admirador (es) m, admiradora (es) f
• Swedish: beundrare (sv) c

Anagrams

• madrier, mardier, married

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admīrārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.ʁe/

• Audio

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Verb

admirer

1. 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Related terms

• admiration

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• madrier

Latin

Verb

admīrer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of admīror