inspirer

English

Etymology

inspire +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)

Noun

inspirer (plural inspirers)

1. Someone who inspires.
   • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 123:

     Iamus, the legendary ancestor of this priestly house, was a son of Apollo, the god of divination, and inspirer of the great oracle at Delphi.

Translations

someone who inspires

• German: Inspirator m, Inspiratorin f
• Greek: εμπνευστής (el) m (empnefstís)
• Latvian: inspirators m, inspiratore f
• Macedonian: вдахно́вител m (vdahnóvitel), вдахнови́телка f (vdahnovítelka), вдахно́вувач m (vdahnóvuvač), вдахнову́вачка f (vdahnovúvačka)
• Russian: вдохнови́тель (ru) m (vdoxnovítelʹ), вдохнови́тельница (ru) f (vdoxnovítelʹnica)
• Spanish: inspirador (es) m, inspiradora (es) f
• Swedish: inspiratör (sv) c

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspīrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/

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Verb

inspirer

1. to breathe in

   Coordinate term: expirer

2. to inspire

   inspirer confiance à quelqu’un ― to inspire confidence in someone, to inspire trust in someone

   Ça ne m’inspire guère confiance. ― That doesn't inspire much confidence in me.

Conjugation

Conjugation of inspirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inspirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inspirant /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inspiré /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspires /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspirons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	inspirez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/	inspirent /ɛ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect	inspirais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirait /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/	inspirions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	inspiriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁje/	inspiraient /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	inspirai /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe/	inspiras /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspira /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspirâmes /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁam/	inspirâtes /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁat/	inspirèrent /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɛʁ/
	future	inspirerai /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	inspireras /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	inspirera /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁa/	inspirerons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	inspirerez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁe/	inspireront /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inspirerais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerais /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerait /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁɛ/	inspirerions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	inspireriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁə.ʁje/	inspireraient /ɛ̃s.pi.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	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspires /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	inspirions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	inspiriez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁje/	inspirent /ɛ̃s.piʁ/
	imperfect2	inspirasse /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/	inspirasses /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/	inspirât /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa/	inspirassions /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	inspirassiez /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁa.sje/	inspirassent /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inspire /ɛ̃s.piʁ/	—	inspirons /ɛ̃s.pi.ʁɔ̃/	inspirez /ɛ̃s.pi.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).

Derived terms

• inspiration

See also

• respirer

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

īnspīrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnspīrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

inspirer

1. imperative of inspirere