aider

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English

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Etymology

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From aid +‎ -er.

Noun

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aider (plural aiders)

  1. A person who aids or assists.
    • 1548, Edward Hall, “The trobleous season of Kyng Henry the sixt, The .xv. yere”, in Hall’s Chronicle‎[1], London: Richard Grafton:
      The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
    • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie‎[2], London: Richard Field, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 254:
      […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
    • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 73:
      […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]
    • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
      The woman in question had, as she said, been a close friend of Margaret’s, and, as such, an aider in her habits of intemperance.
  2. (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.
    As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.

Usage notes

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Often used in the phrase aider and abettor; see also aid and abet.

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Anagrams

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French ayder, from Old French aidier, from Latin adiutāre (“to help, assist”). Cognate with Catalan aidar, Spanish ayudar, Romanian ajuta, Italian aiutare, Portuguese and Catalan ajudar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛ.de/ ~ /e.de/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ai‧der

Verb

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aider

  1. (transitive) to help; to aid
    Synonym: obliger (Louisiana)
    J’aide mon frère à porter ses cartons.
    I'm helping my brother carry his boxes.
    Elle aide souvent les sans-abris.
    She helps the homeless often.
    Cette méthode aide la mémoire.
    This method helps with memory.
  2. (pronominal) to use
    Il s’aide de la rampe pour monter l’escalier.
    He uses the banister to climb the stairs.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of aider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple aider
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple aidant
/ɛ.dɑ̃/ or /e.dɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle aidé
/ɛ.de/ or /e.de/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present aide
/ɛd/ 		aides
/ɛd/ 		aide
/ɛd/ 		aidons
/ɛ.dɔ̃/ or /e.dɔ̃/ 		aidez
/ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ 		aident
/ɛd/
imperfect aidais
/ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ 		aidais
/ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ 		aidait
/ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/ 		aidions
/ɛ.djɔ̃/ or /e.djɔ̃/ 		aidiez
/ɛ.dje/ or /e.dje/ 		aidaient
/ɛ.dɛ/ or /e.dɛ/
past historic2 aidai
/ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ 		aidas
/ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ 		aida
/ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ 		aidâmes
/ɛ.dam/ or /e.dam/ 		aidâtes
/ɛ.dat/ or /e.dat/ 		aidèrent
/ɛ.dɛʁ/ or /e.dɛʁ/
future aiderai
/ɛ.dʁe/ or /e.dʁe/ 		aideras
/ɛ.dʁa/ or /e.dʁa/ 		aidera
/ɛ.dʁa/ or /e.dʁa/ 		aiderons
/ɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /e.dʁɔ̃/ 		aiderez
/ɛ.dʁe/ or /e.dʁe/ 		aideront
/ɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /e.dʁɔ̃/
conditional aiderais
/ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ 		aiderais
/ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ 		aiderait
/ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/ 		aiderions
/ɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ or /e.də.ʁjɔ̃/ 		aideriez
/ɛ.də.ʁje/ or /e.də.ʁje/ 		aideraient
/ɛ.dʁɛ/ or /e.dʁɛ/
(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 aide
/ɛd/ 		aides
/ɛd/ 		aide
/ɛd/ 		aidions
/ɛ.djɔ̃/ or /e.djɔ̃/ 		aidiez
/ɛ.dje/ or /e.dje/ 		aident
/ɛd/
imperfect2 aidasse
/ɛ.das/ or /e.das/ 		aidasses
/ɛ.das/ or /e.das/ 		aidât
/ɛ.da/ or /e.da/ 		aidassions
/ɛ.da.sjɔ̃/ or /e.da.sjɔ̃/ 		aidassiez
/ɛ.da.sje/ or /e.da.sje/ 		aidassent
/ɛ.das/ or /e.das/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — aide
/ɛd/ 		— aidons
/ɛ.dɔ̃/ or /e.dɔ̃/ 		aidez
/ɛ.de/ or /e.de/ 		—
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

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Descendants

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  • Saint Dominican Creole French: hinder
  • Haitian Creole: ede
  • → English: mayday (from (venez) m’aider!)

Further reading

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Anagrams

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