qualifier
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ.ə/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ə
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ.ɚ/, enPR: kwŏʹlĭ-fī-ər
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑɪ.ə/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ə
- Hyphenation: qual‧i‧fi‧er
Noun
qualifier (plural qualifiers)
- One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
- A preliminary stage of a competition.
- (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
- (computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
- 2012, Conor Sexton, C++ Programming Made Simple:
- The qualifier
constmay be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.
Synonyms
- (grammar): modifier
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “contestant”): eliminee
Translations
one who qualifies
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preliminary stage of a competition
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describing or characterizing word
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computing: marker
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See also
- (grammar): determiner
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.li.fje/
- Homophones: qualifiai, qualifié, qualifiée, qualifiées, qualifiés, qualifiez
Audio: (file)
Verb
qualifier
- (intransitive or reflexive, sports) to qualify (of a sports team, etc.) (to compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage)
- Notre équipe s’est qualifiée pour les quarts de finale. ― Our team qualified for the quarter-finals.
- (transitive) to characterize, to consider [with direct object ‘someone/something’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘as something’]
- (transitive, derogatory) to call, to label [with direct object ‘someone’ and de (+ object or adjective) ‘as something’]
- (reflexive) to call oneself (usually undeservedly) [with de (+ copulative noun) or direct copulative (archaic) noun ‘by a title’]
- (transitive) to characterize (to be characteristic of)
- 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, page 150:
- ... toutes les fleurs sont exactement représentées par des alliances d’alcoolats et d’esprits, dérobant au modèle sa personnalité même et y ajoutant ce rien, ce ton en plus, ce fumet capiteux, cette touche rare qui qualifie une œuvre d’art.
- ... all the flowers are exactly represented by alliances of alcoholates and spirits, stealing from the model its very personality and adding this nothingness, this extra tone, this heady aroma, this rare touch which characterizes a work of art.
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | qualifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | qualifiant /ka.li.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | qualifié /ka.li.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | qualifie /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifies /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifie /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifions /ka.li.fjɔ̃/ |
qualifiez /ka.li.fje/ |
qualifient /ka.li.fi/ |
| imperfect | qualifiais /ka.li.fjɛ/ |
qualifiais /ka.li.fjɛ/ |
qualifiait /ka.li.fjɛ/ |
qualifiions /ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/ |
qualifiiez /ka.li.fi.je/ |
qualifiaient /ka.li.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | qualifiai /ka.li.fje/ |
qualifias /ka.li.fja/ |
qualifia /ka.li.fja/ |
qualifiâmes /ka.li.fjam/ |
qualifiâtes /ka.li.fjat/ |
qualifièrent /ka.li.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | qualifierai /ka.li.fi.ʁe/ |
qualifieras /ka.li.fi.ʁa/ |
qualifiera /ka.li.fi.ʁa/ |
qualifierons /ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
qualifierez /ka.li.fi.ʁe/ |
qualifieront /ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | qualifierais /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/ |
qualifierais /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/ |
qualifierait /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/ |
qualifierions /ka.li.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
qualifieriez /ka.li.fi.ʁje/ |
qualifieraient /ka.li.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 | qualifie /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifies /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifie /ka.li.fi/ |
qualifiions /ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/ |
qualifiiez /ka.li.fi.je/ |
qualifient /ka.li.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | qualifiasse /ka.li.fjas/ |
qualifiasses /ka.li.fjas/ |
qualifiât /ka.li.fja/ |
qualifiassions /ka.li.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
qualifiassiez /ka.li.fja.sje/ |
qualifiassent /ka.li.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | qualifie /ka.li.fi/ |
— | qualifions /ka.li.fjɔ̃/ |
qualifiez /ka.li.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). | |||||||
Conjugation of qualifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: kwalificeren
- → English: qualify
- → German: qualifizieren
Further reading
- “qualifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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