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Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷos?

Proto-Indo-European *-onts?

Proto-Indo-European *kʷoider.?

Proto-Italic *kʷāntos

Latin quantus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *θakos

Proto-Italic *-fakos

Latin -ficus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -ficō

Medieval Latin quantificōder.

English quantify

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

▲

Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English quantifier

From quantify + -er.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑn.tɪ.faɪ.ɚ/, /ˈkwɑn.tə.faɪ.ɚ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

quantifier (plural quantifiers)

(grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:quantifier
(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.
(computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

Hypernyms

(grammar): determiner

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Translations

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

Arabic: مُحَدِدْ الْكَمِيَّةْ m (muḥadid al-kamiyyat)
Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} квантификатор m (kvantifikator)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)
French: quantificateur (fr) m
Greek: ποσοδείκτης (el) m (posodeíktis)
Irish: cainníochtóir m
Japanese: 数量詞 (sūryōshi)
Latin: quantificātor m
Polish: kwantyfikator (pl) m inan
Portuguese: quantificador (pt) m
Romanian: cuantificator m
Russian: квантифика́тор (ru) (kvantifikátor)
Vietnamese: lượng từ

a logical operator

Basque: zenbatzaile
Bulgarian: квантор m (kvantor)
Catalan: quantificador m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)
Czech: kvantifikátor m
Danish: kvantor c
Dutch: kwantor (nl) m
Esperanto: kvantizanto, kvantigilo
Finnish: kvanttori (fi)
French: quantificateur (fr) m
German: Quantor (de) m, Quantifikator m
Greek: ποσοδείκτης (el) m (posodeíktis)
Hebrew: כמת (he) m
Hungarian: kvantor (hu)
Interlingua: quantificator
Italian: quantificatore m
Japanese: 量化子 (りょうかし, ryōkashi)
Kazakh: квантор (kvantor)
Korean: 양화 (ko) (yanghwa)
Kyrgyz: квантор (kvantor)
Polish: kwantyfikator (pl) m inan
Portuguese: quantificador (pt) m
Russian: квантор (ru) m (kvantor)
Serbo-Croatian: kvantifikator (sh) m
Slovak: kvantifikátor m, kvantor m
Spanish: cuantificador m
Swedish: kvantifikator c, kvantor (sv) c
Turkish: niceleme (tr)
Ukrainian: квантор m (kvantor)

French

Etymology

From English quantify.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.ti.fje/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)

Verb

quantifier

to quantify

Conjugation

Conjugation of quantifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	quantifier
present participle or gerund¹	simple	quantifiant /kɑ̃.ti.fjɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	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).

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