qualifier

English

Etymology

qualify +‎ -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): /kalifje/

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Verb

qualifier

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

Conjugation

  Conjugation of qualifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		qualifier			avoir qualifié
gerund		en qualifiant			en ayant qualifié
present participle		qualifiant /ka.li.fjɑ̃/
past participle		qualifié /ka.li.fje/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic1	qualifiai /ka.li.fje/	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.ʁe/	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	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	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/
	imperfect1	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	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	–
		—	qualifie /ka.li.fi/	—	qualifions /ka.li.fjɔ̃/	qualifiez /ka.li.fje/	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• qualification

Further reading

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