attirions

Attirions is a French verb form rather than a standalone noun. It represents the present subjunctive mood for the verb attirer in the first-person plural, specifically the form used with the subject nous. In typical usage, it appears in subordinate clauses introduced by que to express wishes, doubts, possibilities, necessity, or hypothetical scenarios.

In terms of grammar, attirer belongs to the group of regular -ir verbs in French. The present subjunctive endings for this mood include -e, -es, -e, -ions, -iez, -ent, and the form attirions corresponds to the nous subject. A complete example is: Il faut que nous attirions l’attention sur ce point. In practice, the present subjunctive is more common in literary or formal styles, and many speakers substitute other constructions in everyday speech.

Attirions can be contrasted with other forms of the same verb in different moods or tenses, such as j’attire (present indicative), nous attirons (present indicative), or nous attirerions (conditional present). The imperative mood for advising or commanding uses different forms altogether, not attenuated by the subjonctif.

Etymology traces attirer to the Latin attrahere, meaning to draw toward, with the French form developing through Old French. The present-subjunctive form attirions reflects standard phonological and morphological patterns for -ir verbs in the modern French subjunctive.

See also French grammar, subjunctive mood, and verb conjugation patterns for -ir verbs.