exemplifier

English

Etymology

exemplify +‎ -er

Noun

exemplifier (plural exemplifiers)

1. One who, or that which, exemplifies.

French

Etymology

From exemple (“example”) +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

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Verb

exemplifier

1. to exemplify

Conjugation

Conjugation of exemplifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exemplifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exemplifiant /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exemplifié /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exemplifie /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifies /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifie /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɔ̃/	exemplifiez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fje/	exemplifient /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/
	imperfect	exemplifiais /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	exemplifiais /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	exemplifiait /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/	exemplifiions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.jɔ̃/	exemplifiiez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.je/	exemplifiaient /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɛ/
	past historic2	exemplifiai /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fje/	exemplifias /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fja/	exemplifia /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fja/	exemplifiâmes /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjam/	exemplifiâtes /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjat/	exemplifièrent /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɛʁ/
	future	exemplifierai /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁe/	exemplifieras /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁa/	exemplifiera /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁa/	exemplifierons /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɔ̃/	exemplifierez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁe/	exemplifieront /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exemplifierais /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	exemplifierais /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	exemplifierait /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁɛ/	exemplifierions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	exemplifieriez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.ʁje/	exemplifieraient /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.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	exemplifie /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifies /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifie /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	exemplifiions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.jɔ̃/	exemplifiiez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi.je/	exemplifient /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/
	imperfect2	exemplifiasse /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjas/	exemplifiasses /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjas/	exemplifiât /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fja/	exemplifiassions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fja.sjɔ̃/	exemplifiassiez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fja.sje/	exemplifiassent /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exemplifie /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fi/	—	exemplifions /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.fjɔ̃/	exemplifiez /ɛɡ.zɑ̃.pli.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

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