quantifier

English

Etymology

quantify +‎ -er

Noun

quantifier (plural quantifiers)

1. (grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity
2. (logic) An operator, such as the universal quantifier (written as ∀) or the existential quantifier (∃), used in predicate calculus to indicate the degree that predicate is true for a specified set.
3. (computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

Hypernyms

• (grammar): determiner

Derived terms

• existential quantifier
• quantifier elimination
• universal quantifier

Related terms

• quantification
• quantify

Translations

a word, such as all or many, that expresses a quantity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)

• French: quantificateur (fr) m
• Greek: ποσοδείκτης (el) m (posodeíktis)
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: quantificador (pt) m
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

a logical operator

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)

• Czech: kvantifikátor m
• Dutch: kwantor (nl) m
• Finnish: kvanttori (fi)
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• French: quantificateur (fr) m
• German: Quantor (de) m
• Greek: ποσοδείκτης (el) m (posodeíktis)
• Japanese: 量化子 (りょうかし, ryōkashi)
• Portuguese: quantificador (pt) m

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English quantify.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.ti.fje/

Verb

quantifier

1. to quantify

Conjugation

Conjugation of quantifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	quantifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	quantifiant /kɑ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		quantifié /kɑ̃.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	quantifie /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifies /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifie /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifions /kɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	quantifiez /kɑ̃.ti.fje/	quantifient /kɑ̃.ti.fi/
	imperfect	quantifiais /kɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	quantifiais /kɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	quantifiait /kɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/	quantifiions /kɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	quantifiiez /kɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	quantifiaient /kɑ̃.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic2	quantifiai /kɑ̃.ti.fje/	quantifias /kɑ̃.ti.fja/	quantifia /kɑ̃.ti.fja/	quantifiâmes /kɑ̃.ti.fjam/	quantifiâtes /kɑ̃.ti.fjat/	quantifièrent /kɑ̃.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	quantifierai /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	quantifieras /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	quantifiera /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁa/	quantifierons /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	quantifierez /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁe/	quantifieront /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	quantifierais /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	quantifierais /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	quantifierait /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	quantifierions /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	quantifieriez /kɑ̃.ti.fi.ʁje/	quantifieraient /kɑ̃.ti.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	quantifie /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifies /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifie /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	quantifiions /kɑ̃.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	quantifiiez /kɑ̃.ti.fi.je/	quantifient /kɑ̃.ti.fi/
	imperfect2	quantifiasse /kɑ̃.ti.fjas/	quantifiasses /kɑ̃.ti.fjas/	quantifiât /kɑ̃.ti.fja/	quantifiassions /kɑ̃.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	quantifiassiez /kɑ̃.ti.fja.sje/	quantifiassent /kɑ̃.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	quantifie /kɑ̃.ti.fi/	—	quantifions /kɑ̃.ti.fjɔ̃/	quantifiez /kɑ̃.ti.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

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