quantifier

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English quantify

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English quantifier

From quantify + -er.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Noun

quantifier (plural quantifiers)

1. (grammar) A word, such as all or many, that expresses the quantity of a related noun.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:quantifier

3. (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.
4. (computing) A symbol or symbols in a regular expression indicating the number of characters to be matched.

Hypernyms

• (grammar): determiner

Derived terms

• existential quantifier
• quant
• quantifier elimination
• self-quantifier
• universal quantifier

Related terms

• quantification
• quantify

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
• 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
• 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)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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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