qualifier

English

Etymology

qualify +‎ -er

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)

1. One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
2. A preliminary stage of a competition.
   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England‎^[1]:

     But England's final qualifier, played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.

3. (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.
4. (computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
   • 2012, Conor Sexton, C++ Programming Made Simple:

     The qualifier const may 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

• Georgian: მსაზღვრელი (msazɣvreli), განმსაზღვრელი (ganmsazɣvreli)
• German: Qualifikant (de) m
• Hungarian: továbbjutó (hu)

preliminary stage of a competition

• Bulgarian: квалификация (bg) f (kvalifikacija)
• Finnish: alkuerät pl, alkusarja
• German: Qualifikationsspiel n, Qualifikationsrunde f
• Hungarian: selejtező (hu)

describing or characterizing word

• Arabic: مُقَيِّدٌ m (muqayyidun)
• Bulgarian: определение (bg) n (opredelenie)
• Finnish: määre (fi), attribuutti (fi)
• German: Kennzeichner m, nähere Bestimmung f, Beifügung (de) f, Attribut (de) n
• Hungarian: módosító (hu), módosítószó (hu), módosítóelem, minőségjelző
• Irish: cáilitheoir m

computing: marker

• Georgian: კვალიფიკატორი (ḳvalipiḳaṭori), მსაზღვრელი (msazɣvreli), განმსაზღვრელი (ganmsazɣvreli)
• Russian: квалификатор (ru) m (kvalifikator)

See also

• (grammar): determiner

French

Etymology

From qualité +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fje/
• Homophones: qualifiai, qualifié, qualifiée, qualifiées, qualifiés, qualifiez

• Audio:

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Verb

qualifier

1. to qualify (of a sports team, etc.)
2. (reflexive) (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.

3. (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call someone something, to label someone

   Synonyms: traiter, taxer

Conjugation

Conjugation of qualifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• majorité qualifiée

Related terms

• qualification

Descendants

• → Dutch: kwalificeren
• → English: qualify
• → German: qualifizieren

Further reading

• “qualifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.