nitrifier

English

Etymology

nitrify +‎ -er

Noun

nitrifier (plural nitrifiers)

1. (chemistry) An agent employed in nitrification.

French

Etymology

From nitrate +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

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Verb

nitrifier

1. to nitrify

Conjugation

Conjugation of nitrifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nitrifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nitrifiant /ni.tʁi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nitrifié /ni.tʁi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nitrifie /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifies /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifie /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifions /ni.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	nitrifiez /ni.tʁi.fje/	nitrifient /ni.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect	nitrifiais /ni.tʁi.fjɛ/	nitrifiais /ni.tʁi.fjɛ/	nitrifiait /ni.tʁi.fjɛ/	nitrifiions /ni.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	nitrifiiez /ni.tʁi.fi.je/	nitrifiaient /ni.tʁi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	nitrifiai /ni.tʁi.fje/	nitrifias /ni.tʁi.fja/	nitrifia /ni.tʁi.fja/	nitrifiâmes /ni.tʁi.fjam/	nitrifiâtes /ni.tʁi.fjat/	nitrifièrent /ni.tʁi.fjɛʁ/
	future	nitrifierai /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	nitrifieras /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	nitrifiera /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁa/	nitrifierons /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	nitrifierez /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁe/	nitrifieront /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nitrifierais /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	nitrifierais /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	nitrifierait /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	nitrifierions /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	nitrifieriez /ni.tʁi.fi.ʁje/	nitrifieraient /ni.tʁi.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	nitrifie /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifies /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifie /ni.tʁi.fi/	nitrifiions /ni.tʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	nitrifiiez /ni.tʁi.fi.je/	nitrifient /ni.tʁi.fi/
	imperfect2	nitrifiasse /ni.tʁi.fjas/	nitrifiasses /ni.tʁi.fjas/	nitrifiât /ni.tʁi.fja/	nitrifiassions /ni.tʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/	nitrifiassiez /ni.tʁi.fja.sje/	nitrifiassent /ni.tʁi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nitrifie /ni.tʁi.fi/	—	nitrifions /ni.tʁi.fjɔ̃/	nitrifiez /ni.tʁi.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

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