animate in English:

It feels as if inanimate objects carry with them the spirit of living things.

Kathryn likes to photograph inanimate things like paintings and desserts.

A rock is an inanimate object.

All of his friends were body pillows, and all of hers were dolls; so they bonded over their fondness for animating the inanimate. However, because they were not inanimate objects but people with complex emotions, their relationship was sometimes strained.