attirer

English

Etymology

From attire +‎ -er.

Noun

attirer (plural attirers)

1. One who attires.

Anagrams

• rattier, retrait, tartier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French atirer, atirier (“to draw to oneself”), from a- + tirer (“to draw, pull out with great effort, snatch violently, tear away”), from Gothic *𐍄𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (*tiran, “to tear away, remove”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”). By surface analysis, a- +‎ tirer. More at tirer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ti.ʁe/

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Verb

attirer

1. to attract
2. to lure, to entice

Conjugation

Conjugation of attirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	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 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	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 of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attire /a.tiʁ/	—	attirons /a.ti.ʁɔ̃/	attirez /a.ti.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

• attirant
• attiré

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• attérir, atterri, retirât, retrait, terrait, titrera, traiter, traitre, traître