imaginer

English

Etymology

From imagine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈmædʒɪnɚ/

Noun

imaginer (plural imaginers)

1. One who imagines (something).

Anagrams

• migraine, reaiming, regimina

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French

Etymology

From Old French imaginer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ʒi.ne/

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Verb

imaginer

1. to imagine

Conjugation

Conjugation of imaginer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	imaginer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	imaginant /i.ma.ʒi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		imaginé /i.ma.ʒi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	imagine /i.ma.ʒin/	imagines /i.ma.ʒin/	imagine /i.ma.ʒin/	imaginons /i.ma.ʒi.nɔ̃/	imaginez /i.ma.ʒi.ne/	imaginent /i.ma.ʒin/
	imperfect	imaginais /i.ma.ʒi.nɛ/	imaginais /i.ma.ʒi.nɛ/	imaginait /i.ma.ʒi.nɛ/	imaginions /i.ma.ʒi.njɔ̃/	imaginiez /i.ma.ʒi.nje/	imaginaient /i.ma.ʒi.nɛ/
	past historic2	imaginai /i.ma.ʒi.ne/	imaginas /i.ma.ʒi.na/	imagina /i.ma.ʒi.na/	imaginâmes /i.ma.ʒi.nam/	imaginâtes /i.ma.ʒi.nat/	imaginèrent /i.ma.ʒi.nɛʁ/
	future	imaginerai /i.ma.ʒin.ʁe/	imagineras /i.ma.ʒin.ʁa/	imaginera /i.ma.ʒin.ʁa/	imaginerons /i.ma.ʒin.ʁɔ̃/	imaginerez /i.ma.ʒin.ʁe/	imagineront /i.ma.ʒin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	imaginerais /i.ma.ʒin.ʁɛ/	imaginerais /i.ma.ʒin.ʁɛ/	imaginerait /i.ma.ʒin.ʁɛ/	imaginerions /i.ma.ʒi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	imagineriez /i.ma.ʒi.nə.ʁje/	imagineraient /i.ma.ʒin.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	imagine /i.ma.ʒin/	imagines /i.ma.ʒin/	imagine /i.ma.ʒin/	imaginions /i.ma.ʒi.njɔ̃/	imaginiez /i.ma.ʒi.nje/	imaginent /i.ma.ʒin/
	imperfect2	imaginasse /i.ma.ʒi.nas/	imaginasses /i.ma.ʒi.nas/	imaginât /i.ma.ʒi.na/	imaginassions /i.ma.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃/	imaginassiez /i.ma.ʒi.na.sje/	imaginassent /i.ma.ʒi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	imagine /i.ma.ʒin/	—	imaginons /i.ma.ʒi.nɔ̃/	imaginez /i.ma.ʒi.ne/	—
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).

Synonyms

• fantasier

Derived terms

• imagination

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• migraine

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Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iˈmaː.ɡi.ner/, [ɪˈmäːɡɪnɛr]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈma.d͡ʒi.ner/, [iˈmäːd͡ʒiner]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) imāginer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of imāginor

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imad͡ʒiˈnɛr/

Verb

imaginer

1. to examine; to look at
2. to depict in the form of an image
3. to contemplate; to think about

Descendants

• → English: imagine
• French: imaginer

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (imaginer)