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

Conjugation

  Conjugation of augmenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		augmenter			avoir augmenté
gerund		en augmentant			en ayant augmenté
present participle		augmentant /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle		augmenté /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentes /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	augmentions /oɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	augmentiez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tje/	augmentent /oɡ.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect1	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	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/	—	augmentons /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	augmentez /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• augmentation

Further reading

• “augmenter” in le 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