opacifier
English
Noun
opacifier (plural opacifiers)
- (chemistry) a chemical agent added to a material, such as rocket propellant, to make it opaque
- (figuratively) an extraneous agent or vehicle which, intentionally otherwise, makes something opaque
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.pa.si.fje/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of opacifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | opacifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | opacifiant /ɔ.pa.si.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | opacifié /ɔ.pa.si.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifies /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifions /ɔ.pa.si.fjɔ̃/ |
opacifiez /ɔ.pa.si.fje/ |
opacifient /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
| imperfect | opacifiais /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/ |
opacifiais /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/ |
opacifiait /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/ |
opacifiions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
opacifiiez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.je/ |
opacifiaient /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | opacifiai /ɔ.pa.si.fje/ |
opacifias /ɔ.pa.si.fja/ |
opacifia /ɔ.pa.si.fja/ |
opacifiâmes /ɔ.pa.si.fjam/ |
opacifiâtes /ɔ.pa.si.fjat/ |
opacifièrent /ɔ.pa.si.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | opacifierai /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁe/ |
opacifieras /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁa/ |
opacifiera /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁa/ |
opacifierons /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
opacifierez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁe/ |
opacifieront /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | opacifierais /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
opacifierais /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
opacifierait /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
opacifierions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
opacifieriez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.ʁje/ |
opacifieraient /ɔ.pa.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 | opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifies /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
opacifiions /ɔ.pa.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
opacifiiez /ɔ.pa.si.fi.je/ |
opacifient /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | opacifiasse /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/ |
opacifiasses /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/ |
opacifiât /ɔ.pa.si.fja/ |
opacifiassions /ɔ.pa.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
opacifiassiez /ɔ.pa.si.fja.sje/ |
opacifiassent /ɔ.pa.si.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | opacifie /ɔ.pa.si.fi/ |
— | opacifions /ɔ.pa.si.fjɔ̃/ |
opacifiez /ɔ.pa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “opacifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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