plaire

Signification (Anglais)

1. to please, to appeal to (usually translated into English as like with exchange of subject and object)
2. to enjoy (oneself)

Concepts

plaire

satisfaire

aimer

assouvir

complaire

contenter

faire plaisir

réjouir

intéresser

goûter

choisir

envier

impressionner

accorder

adonner

avec

comprendre

entendre

sympathiser

être en affaires

bien aimer

sentir

agréer

enchanter

prendre plaisir

ravir

se délecter de

apaiser

combler

faire plaisir à

gratifier

s’acquitter

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/plɛʁ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Inherited from Middle French plaire, from Old French plaire, from plaisir, from Latin placēre. The original infinitive now became a noun, and the infinitive ending was changed to -aire by analogy with the future and conditional forms in plair-. The future stem came from Latin pluperfect stem placuer- (placueram, placuerās, ...); some other verbs also use the pluperfect stem for their future stems (but not in the case of pluperfect forms containing -s- or -x-), for example tenir, tiendrai (if using the infinitive form, it results on expected *tenirai < tenī́re hábeō), see also Appendix:French verbs#Origins.