intensifier
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intensifier (plural intensifiers)
- (linguistics) A modifier such as very, terribly or damned that has little or no meaning of its own and serves to enhance and give additional emotional context to the word that it modifies.
[edit] French
[edit] Verb
intensifier
- to intensify
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of intensifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | intensifier | avoir intensifié | |||||
| gerund | en intensifiant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | intensifiant | ||||||
| past participle | intensifié | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | intensifie | intensifies | intensifie | intensifions | intensifiez | intensifient |
| imperfect | intensifiais | intensifiais | intensifiait | intensifiions | intensifiiez | intensifiaient | |
| past historic | intensifiai | intensifias | intensifia | intensifiâmes | intensifiâtes | intensifièrent | |
| future | intensifierai | intensifieras | intensifiera | intensifierons | intensifierez | intensifieront | |
| conditional | intensifierais | intensifierais | intensifierait | intensifierions | intensifieriez | intensifieraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | intensifie | intensifies | intensifie | intensifiions | intensifiiez | intensifient |
| imperfect | intensifiasse | intensifiasses | intensifiât | intensifiassions | intensifiassiez | intensifiassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | intensifie | — | intensifions | intensifiez | — | ||
