dulcifier

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dulcificāre (“to sweeten, to make sweeter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyl.si.fje/

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Verb

dulcifier

1. (transitive) to soften (make softer)

   Synonyms: doucir, adoucir, radoucir

Conjugation

Conjugation of dulcifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dulcifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dulcifiant /dyl.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dulcifié /dyl.si.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifies /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifions /dyl.si.fjɔ̃/	dulcifiez /dyl.si.fje/	dulcifient /dyl.si.fi/
	imperfect	dulcifiais /dyl.si.fjɛ/	dulcifiais /dyl.si.fjɛ/	dulcifiait /dyl.si.fjɛ/	dulcifiions /dyl.si.fi.jɔ̃/	dulcifiiez /dyl.si.fi.je/	dulcifiaient /dyl.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	dulcifiai /dyl.si.fje/	dulcifias /dyl.si.fja/	dulcifia /dyl.si.fja/	dulcifiâmes /dyl.si.fjam/	dulcifiâtes /dyl.si.fjat/	dulcifièrent /dyl.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	dulcifierai /dyl.si.fi.ʁe/	dulcifieras /dyl.si.fi.ʁa/	dulcifiera /dyl.si.fi.ʁa/	dulcifierons /dyl.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	dulcifierez /dyl.si.fi.ʁe/	dulcifieront /dyl.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dulcifierais /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/	dulcifierais /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/	dulcifierait /dyl.si.fi.ʁɛ/	dulcifierions /dyl.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	dulcifieriez /dyl.si.fi.ʁje/	dulcifieraient /dyl.si.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	dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifies /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/	dulcifiions /dyl.si.fi.jɔ̃/	dulcifiiez /dyl.si.fi.je/	dulcifient /dyl.si.fi/
	imperfect2	dulcifiasse /dyl.si.fjas/	dulcifiasses /dyl.si.fjas/	dulcifiât /dyl.si.fja/	dulcifiassions /dyl.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	dulcifiassiez /dyl.si.fja.sje/	dulcifiassent /dyl.si.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		-	tu	-	nous	vous	-
simple		—	dulcifie /dyl.si.fi/	—	dulcifions /dyl.si.fjɔ̃/	dulcifiez /dyl.si.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).

Derived terms

• dulcification

Further reading

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