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)

Synonymes

satisfaire

faire plaisir

réjouir

assouvir

aimer

❤️

complaire

contenter

enchanter

entendre

envier

goûter

gratifier

impressionner

intéresser

ravir

sentir

👃

adonner

bien aimer

être en affaires

faire plaisir à

prendre plaisir

s’acquitter

sympathiser

choisir

se délecter de

accorder

agréer

🉑

apaiser

avec

combler

comprendre

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.