imaginer

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English imagine

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English imaginer

From imagine + -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

imaginer (plural imaginers)

1. One who imagines (something).
   • 2007 March 18, Terrence Rafferty, “Ice Men”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Although Simmons, as a professional purveyor of horror and fantasy, is no dim imaginer, he has his work cut out for him.

Synonyms

• imaginator

Anagrams

• migraine, reaiming, regimina

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French imaginer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ʒi.ne/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

imaginer

1. to imagine

   Synonym: fantasier

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).

Derived terms

• imaginable
• imagination

Descendants

• → Romanian: imagina

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• migraine

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪˈmaː.ɡɪ.nɛr]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈmaː.d͡ʒi.ner]

Verb

imāginer

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of imāginor

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imāginārī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imad͡ʒiˈneːɾ/

Verb

imaginer

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

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of imaginer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		imaginer			avoir imaginé
gerund		en imaginant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		imaginant
past participle		imaginé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	imagin	imagines	imagine	imaginons	imaginez	imaginent
	imperfect	imaginoie, imagineie, imaginoe, imagineve	imaginoies, imagineies, imaginoes, imagineves	imaginoit, imagineit, imaginot, imagineve	imaginiiens, imaginiens	imaginiiez, imaginiez	imaginoient, imagineient, imaginoent, imaginevent
	preterite	imaginai	imaginas	imagina	imaginames	imaginastes	imaginerent
	future	imaginerai	imagineras	imaginera	imaginerons	imagineroiz, imaginereiz, imaginerez	imagineront
	conditional	imagineroie, imaginereie	imagineroies, imaginereies	imagineroit, imaginereit	imagineriiens, imagineriens	imagineriiez, imagineriez	imagineroient, imaginereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	imagin	imagins	imagint	imaginons	imaginez	imaginent
	imperfect	imaginasse	imaginasses	imaginast	imaginissons, imaginissiens	imaginissoiz, imaginissez, imaginissiez	imaginassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	imagine	—	imaginons	imaginez	—

Descendants

• → English: imagine
• French: imaginer

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “imaginer”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.