augmenter
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Noun
augmenter (plural augmenters)
Translations
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/, /ɔɡ.mɑ̃.te/
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Verb
augmenter
- (transitive, ergative) to increase
- 2013, Patrick Alvin, Anorexies et boulimies à l'adolescence[1], 4th edition, page 36:
- L'hypokaliémie augmentant l'alcalose, un véritable cercle vicieux est constitué.
- The hypokalemia augmenting the alkalosis, a veritable vicious circle is formed.
- (intransitive, ergative) to increase, to augment
Conjugation
Conjugation of augmenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | augmenter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | augmentant /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | augmenté /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/ |
augmentes /oɡ.mɑ̃t/ |
augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/ |
augmentions /oɡ.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
augmentiez /oɡ.mɑ̃.tje/ |
augmentent /oɡ.mɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | 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 | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | augmente /oɡ.mɑ̃t/ |
— | augmentons /oɡ.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
augmentez /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Saint Dominican Creole French: goumenter
Further reading
- “augmenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
augmenter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of augmentō