augmenter

English

Etymology

augment +‎ -er

Noun

augmenter (plural augmenters)

1. One who, or that which, augments or increases something.

Anagrams

• arguement, manuterge, reaugment

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre, present active infinitive of augmentō (“increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/, /ɔɡ.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

augmenter

1. (transitive, ergative) to increase
   • 2013, Patrick Alvin, Anorexies et boulimies à l'adolescence‎^[1], 4th edition, page 36:

     L'hypokaliémie augmentant l'alcalose, un véritable cercle vicieux est constitué.

     The hypokalemia augmenting the alkalosis, a veritable vicious circle is formed.

2. (intransitive, ergative) to increase, to augment

Conjugation

Conjugation of augmenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	augmenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	augmentant /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		augmenté /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentes /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentons /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	augmentez /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/	augmentent /oɡ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	augmentais /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	augmentais /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	augmentait /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/	augmentions /oɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	augmentiez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tje/	augmentaient /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	augmentai /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/	augmentas /oɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	augmenta /oɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	augmentâmes /oɡ.mɑ̃.tam/	augmentâtes /oɡ.mɑ̃.tat/	augmentèrent /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	augmenterai /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	augmenteras /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	augmentera /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁa/	augmenterons /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	augmenterez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁe/	augmenteront /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	augmenterais /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	augmenterais /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	augmenterait /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	augmenterions /oɡ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	augmenteriez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	augmenteraient /oɡ.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentes /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentions /oɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	augmentiez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tje/	augmentent /oɡ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	augmentasse /oɡ.mɑ̃.tas/	augmentasses /oɡ.mɑ̃.tas/	augmentât /oɡ.mɑ̃.ta/	augmentassions /oɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	augmentassiez /oɡ.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	augmentassent /oɡ.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	—	augmentons /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	augmentez /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• augmentation

Further reading

• “augmenter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• argumente, argumenté

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Latin

Verb

augmenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of augmentō