acidifier

English

Etymology

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English acidify

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English acidifier

From acidify + -er.

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Noun

acidifier (plural acidifiers)

1. (chemistry) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.

Translations

simple or compound whose presence is necessary to produce acidity

• German: Säuerungsmittel (de) n
• Portuguese: acidificador m

French

Etymology

From acide (“acid”) +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.si.di.fje/

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Verb

acidifier

1. to acidify (make something acid)

Conjugation

Conjugation of acidifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acidifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	acidifiant /a.si.di.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acidifié /a.si.di.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	acidifie /a.si.di.fi/	acidifies /a.si.di.fi/	acidifie /a.si.di.fi/	acidifions /a.si.di.fjɔ̃/	acidifiez /a.si.di.fje/	acidifient /a.si.di.fi/
	imperfect	acidifiais /a.si.di.fjɛ/	acidifiais /a.si.di.fjɛ/	acidifiait /a.si.di.fjɛ/	acidifiions /a.si.di.fi.jɔ̃/	acidifiiez /a.si.di.fi.je/	acidifiaient /a.si.di.fjɛ/
	past historic2	acidifiai /a.si.di.fje/	acidifias /a.si.di.fja/	acidifia /a.si.di.fja/	acidifiâmes /a.si.di.fjam/	acidifiâtes /a.si.di.fjat/	acidifièrent /a.si.di.fjɛʁ/
	future	acidifierai /a.si.di.fi.ʁe/	acidifieras /a.si.di.fi.ʁa/	acidifiera /a.si.di.fi.ʁa/	acidifierons /a.si.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/	acidifierez /a.si.di.fi.ʁe/	acidifieront /a.si.di.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acidifierais /a.si.di.fi.ʁɛ/	acidifierais /a.si.di.fi.ʁɛ/	acidifierait /a.si.di.fi.ʁɛ/	acidifierions /a.si.di.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	acidifieriez /a.si.di.fi.ʁje/	acidifieraient /a.si.di.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	acidifie /a.si.di.fi/	acidifies /a.si.di.fi/	acidifie /a.si.di.fi/	acidifiions /a.si.di.fi.jɔ̃/	acidifiiez /a.si.di.fi.je/	acidifient /a.si.di.fi/
	imperfect2	acidifiasse /a.si.di.fjas/	acidifiasses /a.si.di.fjas/	acidifiât /a.si.di.fja/	acidifiassions /a.si.di.fja.sjɔ̃/	acidifiassiez /a.si.di.fja.sje/	acidifiassent /a.si.di.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	acidifie /a.si.di.fi/	—	acidifions /a.si.di.fjɔ̃/	acidifiez /a.si.di.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

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