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

please

like

appeal to

be pleasing

appeal

enjoy

satisfy

delight

fancy

each

get along

other

with

'' ''so.'' likes ''smth.''

be liked

enchant

gratify

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.