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
   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 11:

     La ville contient tant de spectacles alléchants, de distractions payantes ou gratuites, que la tentation devient bien souvent la plus forte et qu’on abandonne son foyer, attiré qu’on est par le charme de la rue.

     The city contains so many enticing spectacles, paid or free entertainments, that temptation often becomes the strongest and we abandon our homes, enticed as we are by the charm of the street.

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