purifier

English

Etymology

From purify +‎ -er.

Noun

purifier (plural purifiers)

1. A person or device that purifies (by removing impurities).

Derived terms

• air purifier
• exhaust purifier
• water purifier

Translations

person or device that purifies

Chinese: Mandarin: 淨化器 / 净化器 (jìnghuàqì) Finnish: puhdistin (fi) (device), puhdistaja (fi) (person) Gujarati: શુદ્ધિકર્તા (śuddhikartā) Polish: oczyszczacz (pl) m

French

Etymology

Loaned from Latin pūrificāre, from pūrus (“pure; clean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.ʁi.fje/

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Verb

purifier

1. to purify
2. to cleanse (cleanse something of impurities)

Conjugation

Conjugation of purifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	purifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	purifiant /py.ʁi.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		purifié /py.ʁi.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	purifie /py.ʁi.fi/	purifies /py.ʁi.fi/	purifie /py.ʁi.fi/	purifions /py.ʁi.fjɔ̃/	purifiez /py.ʁi.fje/	purifient /py.ʁi.fi/
	imperfect	purifiais /py.ʁi.fjɛ/	purifiais /py.ʁi.fjɛ/	purifiait /py.ʁi.fjɛ/	purifiions /py.ʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	purifiiez /py.ʁi.fi.je/	purifiaient /py.ʁi.fjɛ/
	past historic2	purifiai /py.ʁi.fje/	purifias /py.ʁi.fja/	purifia /py.ʁi.fja/	purifiâmes /py.ʁi.fjam/	purifiâtes /py.ʁi.fjat/	purifièrent /py.ʁi.fjɛʁ/
	future	purifierai /py.ʁi.fi.ʁe/	purifieras /py.ʁi.fi.ʁa/	purifiera /py.ʁi.fi.ʁa/	purifierons /py.ʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/	purifierez /py.ʁi.fi.ʁe/	purifieront /py.ʁi.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	purifierais /py.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	purifierais /py.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	purifierait /py.ʁi.fi.ʁɛ/	purifierions /py.ʁi.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	purifieriez /py.ʁi.fi.ʁje/	purifieraient /py.ʁi.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	purifie /py.ʁi.fi/	purifies /py.ʁi.fi/	purifie /py.ʁi.fi/	purifiions /py.ʁi.fi.jɔ̃/	purifiiez /py.ʁi.fi.je/	purifient /py.ʁi.fi/
	imperfect2	purifiasse /py.ʁi.fjas/	purifiasses /py.ʁi.fjas/	purifiât /py.ʁi.fja/	purifiassions /py.ʁi.fja.sjɔ̃/	purifiassiez /py.ʁi.fja.sje/	purifiassent /py.ʁi.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	purifie /py.ʁi.fi/	—	purifions /py.ʁi.fjɔ̃/	purifiez /py.ʁi.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).

Synonyms

• épurer

Further reading

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