gratifier

English

Etymology

From gratify +‎ -er.

Noun

gratifier (plural gratifiers)

1. Someone who gratifies.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin grātificārī, from Latin grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + facere (“to make”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

gratifier

1. to gratify
2. to reward

Conjugation

Conjugation of gratifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gratifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gratifiant /ɡʁa.ti.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gratifié /ɡʁa.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gratifie /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifies /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifie /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifions /ɡʁa.ti.fjɔ̃/	gratifiez /ɡʁa.ti.fje/	gratifient /ɡʁa.ti.fi/
	imperfect	gratifiais /ɡʁa.ti.fjɛ/	gratifiais /ɡʁa.ti.fjɛ/	gratifiait /ɡʁa.ti.fjɛ/	gratifiions /ɡʁa.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	gratifiiez /ɡʁa.ti.fi.je/	gratifiaient /ɡʁa.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic2	gratifiai /ɡʁa.ti.fje/	gratifias /ɡʁa.ti.fja/	gratifia /ɡʁa.ti.fja/	gratifiâmes /ɡʁa.ti.fjam/	gratifiâtes /ɡʁa.ti.fjat/	gratifièrent /ɡʁa.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	gratifierai /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁe/	gratifieras /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁa/	gratifiera /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁa/	gratifierons /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	gratifierez /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁe/	gratifieront /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gratifierais /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	gratifierais /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	gratifierait /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	gratifierions /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	gratifieriez /ɡʁa.ti.fi.ʁje/	gratifieraient /ɡʁa.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	gratifie /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifies /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifie /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	gratifiions /ɡʁa.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	gratifiiez /ɡʁa.ti.fi.je/	gratifient /ɡʁa.ti.fi/
	imperfect2	gratifiasse /ɡʁa.ti.fjas/	gratifiasses /ɡʁa.ti.fjas/	gratifiât /ɡʁa.ti.fja/	gratifiassions /ɡʁa.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	gratifiassiez /ɡʁa.ti.fja.sje/	gratifiassent /ɡʁa.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gratifie /ɡʁa.ti.fi/	—	gratifions /ɡʁa.ti.fjɔ̃/	gratifiez /ɡʁa.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).

Related terms

• gratification

Further reading

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