augmenter

English

Etymology

augment +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Noun

augmenter (plural augmenters)

1. One who, or that which, augments or increases something.

Anagrams

• arguement, manuterge, reaugment

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre, present active infinitive of augmentō (“increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡ.mɑ̃.te/, /ɔɡ.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

augmenter

1. (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.

2. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

• réalité augmentée

Related terms

• augmentation

Descendants

• Saint Dominican Creole French: goumenter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• argumente, argumenté

Latin

Verb

augmenter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of augmentō