English
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɒdɪfaɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɑdɪfaɪɚ/
- Hyphenation: mod‧i‧fi‧er
Noun
modifier (plural modifiers)
- One who, or that which, modifies.
- (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)
- Synonym: qualifier
- Hypernym: adjunct
- Coordinate term: supplement
- (programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
- The
protectedmodifier makes a class member visible to subclasses, but not to external code.
- (computing) Ellipsis of modifier key.
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Translations
one who modifies
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grammar: qualifying word, clause or phrase
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French
Etymology
From Latin modificāre, from modus.
Pronunciation
Verb
modifier
Conjugation
Conjugation of modifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | modifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | modifiant /mɔ.di.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | modifié /mɔ.di.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | modifie /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifies /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifie /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifions /mɔ.di.fjɔ̃/ |
modifiez /mɔ.di.fje/ |
modifient /mɔ.di.fi/ |
| imperfect | modifiais /mɔ.di.fjɛ/ |
modifiais /mɔ.di.fjɛ/ |
modifiait /mɔ.di.fjɛ/ |
modifiions /mɔ.di.fi.jɔ̃/ |
modifiiez /mɔ.di.fi.je/ |
modifiaient /mɔ.di.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | modifiai /mɔ.di.fje/ |
modifias /mɔ.di.fja/ |
modifia /mɔ.di.fja/ |
modifiâmes /mɔ.di.fjam/ |
modifiâtes /mɔ.di.fjat/ |
modifièrent /mɔ.di.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | modifierai /mɔ.di.fi.ʁe/ |
modifieras /mɔ.di.fi.ʁa/ |
modifiera /mɔ.di.fi.ʁa/ |
modifierons /mɔ.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
modifierez /mɔ.di.fi.ʁe/ |
modifieront /mɔ.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | modifierais /mɔ.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
modifierais /mɔ.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
modifierait /mɔ.di.fi.ʁɛ/ |
modifierions /mɔ.di.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
modifieriez /mɔ.di.fi.ʁje/ |
modifieraient /mɔ.di.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 | modifie /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifies /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifie /mɔ.di.fi/ |
modifiions /mɔ.di.fi.jɔ̃/ |
modifiiez /mɔ.di.fi.je/ |
modifient /mɔ.di.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | modifiasse /mɔ.di.fjas/ |
modifiasses /mɔ.di.fjas/ |
modifiât /mɔ.di.fja/ |
modifiassions /mɔ.di.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
modifiassiez /mɔ.di.fja.sje/ |
modifiassent /mɔ.di.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | modifie /mɔ.di.fi/ |
— | modifions /mɔ.di.fjɔ̃/ |
modifiez /mɔ.di.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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “modifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012