qualifier

English

Etymology

qualify +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑl.ɪ.faɪ.ɚ/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ.ə/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ə
• Hyphenation: qual‧i‧fi‧er

Noun

qualifier (plural qualifiers)

1. One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
2. A preliminary stage of a competition.
   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]

     But England's final qualifier, played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.

3. (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; a modifier; that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
4. (computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
   • 2012, Conor Sexton, C++ Programming Made Simple

     The qualifier const may be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.

Synonyms

• (grammar): modifier

See also

• (grammar): determiner

Translations

One who qualifies

• Finnish: määre (fi), attribuutti (fi)

• German: Qualifikant (de) m

A preliminary stage

• German: Qualifikationsspiel n, Qualifikationsrunde f

A describing or characterizing word

• German: Kennzeichner m, nähere Bestimmung f, Beifügung (de) f, Attribut (de) n

A marker

• Russian: квалификатор (ru) m (kvalifikator)

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French

Etymology

qualité +‎ -ifier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fje/

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Verb

qualifier

1. to qualify (of a sports team, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of qualifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		qualifiant /ka.li.fjɑ̃/
past participle		qualifié /ka.li.fje/
infinitive
simple		qualifier
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		qualifiant /ka.li.fjɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	qualifies /ka.li.fi/	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	qualifions /ka.li.fjɔ̃/	qualifiez /ka.li.fje/	qualifient /ka.li.fi/
	imperfect	qualifiais /ka.li.fjɛ/	qualifiais /ka.li.fjɛ/	qualifiait /ka.li.fjɛ/	qualifiions /ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/	qualifiiez /ka.li.fi.je/	qualifiaient /ka.li.fjɛ/
	past historic2	qualifiai /ka.li.fjɛ/	qualifias /ka.li.fja/	qualifia /ka.li.fja/	qualifiâmes /ka.li.fjam/	qualifiâtes /ka.li.fjat/	qualifièrent /ka.li.fjɛʁ/
	future	qualifierai /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	qualifieras /ka.li.fi.ʁa/	qualifiera /ka.li.fi.ʁa/	qualifierons /ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/	qualifierez /ka.li.fi.ʁe/	qualifieront /ka.li.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	qualifierais /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	qualifierais /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	qualifierait /ka.li.fi.ʁɛ/	qualifierions /ka.li.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	qualifieriez /ka.li.fi.ʁje/	qualifieraient /ka.li.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	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	qualifies /ka.li.fi/	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	qualifiions /ka.li.fi.jɔ̃/	qualifiiez /ka.li.fi.je/	qualifient /ka.li.fi/
	imperfect2	qualifiasse /ka.li.fjas/	qualifiasses /ka.li.fjas/	qualifiât /ka.li.fja/	qualifiassions /ka.li.fja.sjɔ̃/	qualifiassiez /ka.li.fja.sje/	qualifiassent /ka.li.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	—	qualifions /ka.li.fjɔ̃/	qualifiez /ka.li.fje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with 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

• qualification

Further reading

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