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Webster 1913 Edition
Imaginer
Im-ag′in-er
,Noun.
One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Imaginer
IMAG'INER
,Noun.
Definition 2025
imaginer
imaginer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ma.ʒi.ne/
Verb
imaginer
- to imagine
Conjugation
Conjugation of imaginer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | imaginer | avoir imaginé | |||||
| gerund | en imaginant | en ayant imaginé | |||||
| present participle | imaginant /i.ma.ʒi.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | imaginé /i.ma.ʒi.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| 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/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | imagine /i.ma.ʒin/ |
— | imaginons /i.ma.ʒi.nɔ̃/ |
imaginez /i.ma.ʒi.ne/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Synonyms
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /iˈmaː.ɡi.ner/, [ɪˈmaː.ɡɪ.nɛr]
Verb
imāginer
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of imāginor
Old French
Etymology
Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”).
Verb
imaginer
- to examine; to look at
- to depict in the form of an image
- to contemplate; to think about
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (imaginer)