fructifier

English

Etymology

fructify +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌktɪfaɪə/

Noun

fructifier (plural fructifiers)

1. Someone or something that fructifies.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin fructificāre, from Latin fructus (“fruit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁyk.ti.fje/

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Verb

fructifier

1. to fructify

Conjugation

Conjugation of fructifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fructifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fructifiant /fʁyk.ti.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fructifié /fʁyk.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fructifie /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifies /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifie /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifions /fʁyk.ti.fjɔ̃/	fructifiez /fʁyk.ti.fje/	fructifient /fʁyk.ti.fi/
	imperfect	fructifiais /fʁyk.ti.fjɛ/	fructifiais /fʁyk.ti.fjɛ/	fructifiait /fʁyk.ti.fjɛ/	fructifiions /fʁyk.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	fructifiiez /fʁyk.ti.fi.je/	fructifiaient /fʁyk.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic2	fructifiai /fʁyk.ti.fje/	fructifias /fʁyk.ti.fja/	fructifia /fʁyk.ti.fja/	fructifiâmes /fʁyk.ti.fjam/	fructifiâtes /fʁyk.ti.fjat/	fructifièrent /fʁyk.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	fructifierai /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁe/	fructifieras /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁa/	fructifiera /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁa/	fructifierons /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	fructifierez /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁe/	fructifieront /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fructifierais /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	fructifierais /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	fructifierait /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	fructifierions /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	fructifieriez /fʁyk.ti.fi.ʁje/	fructifieraient /fʁyk.ti.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	fructifie /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifies /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifie /fʁyk.ti.fi/	fructifiions /fʁyk.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	fructifiiez /fʁyk.ti.fi.je/	fructifient /fʁyk.ti.fi/
	imperfect2	fructifiasse /fʁyk.ti.fjas/	fructifiasses /fʁyk.ti.fjas/	fructifiât /fʁyk.ti.fja/	fructifiassions /fʁyk.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	fructifiassiez /fʁyk.ti.fja.sje/	fructifiassent /fʁyk.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fructifie /fʁyk.ti.fi/	—	fructifions /fʁyk.ti.fjɔ̃/	fructifiez /fʁyk.ti.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).

Further reading

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