dulcifier
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dulcificāre (“to sweeten, to make sweeter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dyl.si.fje/
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Verb
dulcifier
Conjugation
Conjugation of dulcifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dulcifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dulcifiant /dyl.si.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dulcifié /dyl.si.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifies /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifions /dyl.si.fjɔ̃/ |
dulcifiez /dyl.si.fje/ |
dulcifient /dyl.si.fi/ |
| imperfect | dulcifiais /dyl.si.fjɛ/ |
dulcifiais /dyl.si.fjɛ/ |
dulcifiait /dyl.si.fjɛ/ |
dulcifiions /dyl.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
dulcifiiez /dyl.si.fi.je/ |
dulcifiaient /dyl.si.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dulcifiai /dyl.si.fje/ |
dulcifias /dyl.si.fja/ |
dulcifia /dyl.si.fja/ |
dulcifiâmes /dyl.si.fjam/ |
dulcifiâtes /dyl.si.fjat/ |
dulcifièrent /dyl.si.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | dulcifierai /dyl.si.fi.ʁe/ |
dulcifieras /dyl.si.fi.ʁa/ |
dulcifiera /dyl.si.fi.ʁa/ |
dulcifierons /dyl.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
dulcifierez /dyl.si.fi.ʁe/ |
dulcifieront /dyl.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dulcifierais /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
dulcifierais /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
dulcifierait /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
dulcifierions /dyl.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dulcifieriez /dyl.si.fi.ʁje/ |
dulcifieraient /dyl.si.fi.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 | dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifies /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/ |
dulcifiions /dyl.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
dulcifiiez /dyl.si.fi.je/ |
dulcifient /dyl.si.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | dulcifiasse /dyl.si.fjas/ |
dulcifiasses /dyl.si.fjas/ |
dulcifiât /dyl.si.fja/ |
dulcifiassions /dyl.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
dulcifiassiez /dyl.si.fja.sje/ |
dulcifiassent /dyl.si.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/ |
— | dulcifions /dyl.si.fjɔ̃/ |
dulcifiez /dyl.si.fje/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dulcifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.