aimanter

French

Etymology

From aimant +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.mɑ̃.te/ ~ /e.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

aimanter

1. to magnetize (cause to be magnetic)

Conjugation

Conjugation of aimanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aimanter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aimantant /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		aimanté /ɛ.mɑ̃.te/ or /e.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aimante /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimantes /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimante /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimantons /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	aimantez /ɛ.mɑ̃.te/ or /e.mɑ̃.te/	aimantent /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	aimantais /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɛ/	aimantais /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɛ/	aimantait /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɛ/	aimantions /ɛ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	aimantiez /ɛ.mɑ̃.tje/ or /e.mɑ̃.tje/	aimantaient /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	aimantai /ɛ.mɑ̃.te/ or /e.mɑ̃.te/	aimantas /ɛ.mɑ̃.ta/ or /e.mɑ̃.ta/	aimanta /ɛ.mɑ̃.ta/ or /e.mɑ̃.ta/	aimantâmes /ɛ.mɑ̃.tam/ or /e.mɑ̃.tam/	aimantâtes /ɛ.mɑ̃.tat/ or /e.mɑ̃.tat/	aimantèrent /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	aimanterai /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁe/	aimanteras /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁa/	aimantera /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁa/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁa/	aimanterons /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	aimanterez /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁe/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁe/	aimanteront /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	aimanterais /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	aimanterais /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	aimanterait /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	aimanterions /ɛ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	aimanteriez /ɛ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ or /e.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	aimanteraient /ɛ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ or /e.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	aimante /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimantes /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimante /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	aimantions /ɛ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	aimantiez /ɛ.mɑ̃.tje/ or /e.mɑ̃.tje/	aimantent /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	aimantasse /ɛ.mɑ̃.tas/ or /e.mɑ̃.tas/	aimantasses /ɛ.mɑ̃.tas/ or /e.mɑ̃.tas/	aimantât /ɛ.mɑ̃.ta/ or /e.mɑ̃.ta/	aimantassions /ɛ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	aimantassiez /ɛ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/ or /e.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	aimantassent /ɛ.mɑ̃.tas/ or /e.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aimante /ɛ.mɑ̃t/ or /e.mɑ̃t/	—	aimantons /ɛ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ or /e.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	aimantez /ɛ.mɑ̃.te/ or /e.mɑ̃.te/	—
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

• aimant
• aimantation
• aimantin
• aimanté

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• armaient, ramaient, ramenait, réanimât, remaniât, rentamai