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

• nonadmirer
• 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

From Middle French admirer, relatinized spelling of older amirer, from Old French amirer (14th c.), borrowed from Latin admīrārī. The restored ⟨d⟩ was silent in Middle French, but came to be pronounced later on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.ʁe/

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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

Descendants

• → Franco-Provençal: admirar

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