opacifier

English

Etymology

opacify +‎ -er

Noun

opacifier (plural opacifiers)

1. (chemistry) a chemical agent added to a material, such as rocket propellant, to make it opaque
2. (figuratively) an extraneous agent or vehicle which, intentionally otherwise, makes something opaque

French

Etymology

From opaque +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pa.si.fje/

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Verb

opacifier

1. (transitive) to opacify

Conjugation

Conjugation of opacifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	opacifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	opacifiant /ɔ.pa.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		opacifié /ɔ.pa.si.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifies /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifions /ɔ.pa.si.fjɔ̃/	opacifiez /ɔ.pa.si.fje/	opacifient /ɔ.pa.si.fi/
	imperfect	opacifiais /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/	opacifiais /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/	opacifiait /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/	opacifiions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/	opacifiiez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.je/	opacifiaient /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	opacifiai /ɔ.pa.si.fje/	opacifias /ɔ.pa.si.fja/	opacifia /ɔ.pa.si.fja/	opacifiâmes /ɔ.pa.si.fjam/	opacifiâtes /ɔ.pa.si.fjat/	opacifièrent /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	opacifierai /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁe/	opacifieras /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁa/	opacifiera /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁa/	opacifierons /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	opacifierez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁe/	opacifieront /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	opacifierais /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	opacifierais /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	opacifierait /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/	opacifierions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	opacifieriez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁje/	opacifieraient /ɔ.pa.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	opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifies /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	opacifiions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/	opacifiiez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.je/	opacifient /ɔ.pa.si.fi/
	imperfect2	opacifiasse /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/	opacifiasses /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/	opacifiât /ɔ.pa.si.fja/	opacifiassions /ɔ.pa.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	opacifiassiez /ɔ.pa.si.fja.sje/	opacifiassent /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/	—	opacifions /ɔ.pa.si.fjɔ̃/	opacifiez /ɔ.pa.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: 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

• opacification

Further reading

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