confirmer

English

Etymology

From confirm +‎ -er.

Noun

confirmer (plural confirmers)

1. One who confirms something

See also

• confirmor

Anagrams

• reconfirm

French

Etymology

From Middle French confermer, from Latin cōnfirmāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/
• Homophones: confirmai, confirmé, confirmée, confirmées, confirmés, confirmez

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Verb

confirmer

1. (transitive) to confirm (a fact etc.)
2. (transitive) to uphold (a decision)
3. (reflexive) to be confirmed, be corroborated

Conjugation

Conjugation of confirmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	confirmer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	confirmant /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		confirmé /kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	confirme /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirmes /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirme /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirmons /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɔ̃/	confirmez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/	confirment /kɔ̃.fiʁm/
	imperfect	confirmais /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/	confirmais /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/	confirmait /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/	confirmions /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mjɔ̃/	confirmiez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mje/	confirmaient /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	confirmai /kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/	confirmas /kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma/	confirma /kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma/	confirmâmes /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mam/	confirmâtes /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mat/	confirmèrent /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɛʁ/
	future	confirmerai /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁe/	confirmeras /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁa/	confirmera /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁa/	confirmerons /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/	confirmerez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁe/	confirmeront /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	confirmerais /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	confirmerais /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	confirmerait /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	confirmerions /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	confirmeriez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.ʁje/	confirmeraient /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mə.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	confirme /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirmes /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirme /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	confirmions /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mjɔ̃/	confirmiez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mje/	confirment /kɔ̃.fiʁm/
	imperfect2	confirmasse /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mas/	confirmasses /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mas/	confirmât /kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma/	confirmassions /kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/	confirmassiez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.ma.sje/	confirmassent /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	confirme /kɔ̃.fiʁm/	—	confirmons /kɔ̃.fiʁ.mɔ̃/	confirmez /kɔ̃.fiʁ.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

• exception qui confirme la règle
• l’exception confirme la règle

Related terms

• confirmation

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈfir.mer/, [kõːˈfɪrmɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈfir.mer/, [koɱˈfirmer]

Verb

cōnfirmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnfirmō

Norman

Etymology

From Latin cōnfirmō, cōnfirmāre (“make firm, establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm”), from con- (“with, together”) + firmō, firmāre (“strengthen, fortify”).

Verb

confirmer

1. (Jersey) to confirm