animer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.me/

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Verb

animer

1. to animate (give something life)
2. to animate (give vigour)
3. (animation) to animate (draw animation)
4. to spur on

Conjugation

Conjugation of animer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	animer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	animant /a.ni.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		animé /a.ni.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	anime /a.nim/	animes /a.nim/	anime /a.nim/	animons /a.ni.mɔ̃/	animez /a.ni.me/	animent /a.nim/
	imperfect	animais /a.ni.mɛ/	animais /a.ni.mɛ/	animait /a.ni.mɛ/	animions /a.ni.mjɔ̃/	animiez /a.ni.mje/	animaient /a.ni.mɛ/
	past historic2	animai /a.ni.me/	animas /a.ni.ma/	anima /a.ni.ma/	animâmes /a.ni.mam/	animâtes /a.ni.mat/	animèrent /a.ni.mɛʁ/
	future	animerai /a.nim.ʁe/	animeras /a.nim.ʁa/	animera /a.nim.ʁa/	animerons /a.nim.ʁɔ̃/	animerez /a.nim.ʁe/	animeront /a.nim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	animerais /a.nim.ʁɛ/	animerais /a.nim.ʁɛ/	animerait /a.nim.ʁɛ/	animerions /a.ni.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	animeriez /a.ni.mə.ʁje/	animeraient /a.nim.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	anime /a.nim/	animes /a.nim/	anime /a.nim/	animions /a.ni.mjɔ̃/	animiez /a.ni.mje/	animent /a.nim/
	imperfect2	animasse /a.ni.mas/	animasses /a.ni.mas/	animât /a.ni.ma/	animassions /a.ni.ma.sjɔ̃/	animassiez /a.ni.ma.sje/	animassent /a.ni.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	anime /a.nim/	—	animons /a.ni.mɔ̃/	animez /a.ni.me/	—
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

• ranimer
• réanimer
• animateur

Descendants

• → Franco-Provençal: animar
• → Romanian: anima

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• manier, Marine, marine, mariné, minera, ranime, ranimé

Latin

Verb

animer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of animō