amarrer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French amarer (14th c.), from Middle Dutch *aenmâren, from aen (“on”) + mâren (“to moor, dock, fasten a ship”), a variant of mêren, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn, whence English moor. Alternatively to being from *aenmâren, Middle French amarer could also be a native derivation from the borrowed simplex marer, but compare Modern Dutch aanmeren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.ʁe/

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Verb

amarrer

1. (nautical) to moor
2. to tie with rope

Conjugation

Conjugation of amarrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amarrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amarrant /a.ma.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amarré /a.ma.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amarre /a.maʁ/	amarres /a.maʁ/	amarre /a.maʁ/	amarrons /a.ma.ʁɔ̃/	amarrez /a.ma.ʁe/	amarrent /a.maʁ/
	imperfect	amarrais /a.ma.ʁɛ/	amarrais /a.ma.ʁɛ/	amarrait /a.ma.ʁɛ/	amarrions /a.ma.ʁjɔ̃/	amarriez /a.ma.ʁje/	amarraient /a.ma.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	amarrai /a.ma.ʁe/	amarras /a.ma.ʁa/	amarra /a.ma.ʁa/	amarrâmes /a.ma.ʁam/	amarrâtes /a.ma.ʁat/	amarrèrent /a.ma.ʁɛʁ/
	future	amarrerai /a.ma.ʁə.ʁe/	amarreras /a.ma.ʁə.ʁa/	amarrera /a.ma.ʁə.ʁa/	amarrerons /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	amarrerez /a.ma.ʁə.ʁe/	amarreront /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amarrerais /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɛ/	amarrerais /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɛ/	amarrerait /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɛ/	amarrerions /a.ma.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	amarreriez /a.ma.ʁə.ʁje/	amarreraient /a.ma.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	amarre /a.maʁ/	amarres /a.maʁ/	amarre /a.maʁ/	amarrions /a.ma.ʁjɔ̃/	amarriez /a.ma.ʁje/	amarrent /a.maʁ/
	imperfect2	amarrasse /a.ma.ʁas/	amarrasses /a.ma.ʁas/	amarrât /a.ma.ʁa/	amarrassions /a.ma.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	amarrassiez /a.ma.ʁa.sje/	amarrassent /a.ma.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amarre /a.maʁ/	—	amarrons /a.ma.ʁɔ̃/	amarrez /a.ma.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• amarrage
• démarrer (to start)
• désamarrer (to unmoor)

 

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: marré
• Saint Dominican Creole French: marré
  • Haitian Creole: mare
• → Catalan: amarrar
• → Galician: amarrar
• → Portuguese: amarrar
• → Spanish: amarrar

See also

• amerrir
• atterrir

 

Further reading

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