admirer

English

Etymology

admire +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪərə(r)

Noun

admirer (plural admirers)

1. One who admires.

Derived terms

• secret admirer

Translations

one who admires

• Albanian: admirues (sq) m, admiruese f
• Asturian: almirador m
• Bulgarian: поклонник (bg) (poklonnik), обожател (bg) (obožatel)
• Catalan: admirador m
• 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

• German: Bewunderer m, Bewundererin f
• Hungarian: csodáló (hu)
• Italian: ammiratore (it) m
• Latin: mīrātor m, mīrātrix f, fautor m, fautrix f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beundrer m

• Polish: wielbiciel (pl) m, wielbicielka (pl) f
• Portuguese: admirador (pt) m
• 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

Anagrams

• madrier, mardier, married

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admīrārī, present active infinitive of admīror.

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)

present participle		admirant /ad.mi.ʁɑ̃/
past participle		admiré /ad.mi.ʁe/
infinitive
simple		admirer
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		admirant /ad.mi.ʁɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	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 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• admiration

Further reading

• “admirer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• madrier

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Latin

Verb

admīrer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of admīror