aimer

aim +‎ -er

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪmɚ/

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aimer (plural aimers)

1. One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
   • 2009 April 4, Steve Holland, “Ron 'Nobby' Clark”, in The Guardian‎:

     After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.

• Maire, Marie, Miera, armie, ramie, reaim, rimae

From the conjugated forms of Old French amer, from Latin amāre (“to love”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.me/, /e.me/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: aimai, aimé, aimée, aimées, aimés, aimez

aimer

1. to love (usually of a person, otherwise the meaning is closer to like)

   Donne-moi une raison de t’aimer.

   Give me a reason to like you.

   J’aime cet homme-ci plus que tout au monde.

   I love this man more than anything in the world.

2. to like (often with bien)

   Il aime bien danser. ― He likes dancing.

• je t’aime
• je vous aime
• qui aime bien châtie bien
• qui m’aime me suive

• amateur
• ami, amie
• amour

• Saint Dominican Creole French: haimé

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

• maire
• marie, Marie, marié

From Old French amer.

aimer

1. (transitive) to love
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 515:

     Si l'houme aïme autre mûx que sé au moulin i' mourra de set.

     If a man loves others more than himself, he will die of thirst even were he in a mill.

• haïr (“to hate”)
• haguir (“to hate”)

aimer

1. Alternative form of amer

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.