ratifier

English

Etymology

From ratify +‎ -er.

Noun

ratifier (plural ratifiers)

1. One who ratifies.
2. One who is in favor of ratification.

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ratificare, from Latin ratus (“established, authoritative; fixed, certain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ti.fje/

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Verb

ratifier

1. to ratify (give formal consent to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ratifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ratifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ratifiant /ʁa.ti.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ratifié /ʁa.ti.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ratifie /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifies /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifie /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifions /ʁa.ti.fjɔ̃/	ratifiez /ʁa.ti.fje/	ratifient /ʁa.ti.fi/
	imperfect	ratifiais /ʁa.ti.fjɛ/	ratifiais /ʁa.ti.fjɛ/	ratifiait /ʁa.ti.fjɛ/	ratifiions /ʁa.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	ratifiiez /ʁa.ti.fi.je/	ratifiaient /ʁa.ti.fjɛ/
	past historic2	ratifiai /ʁa.ti.fje/	ratifias /ʁa.ti.fja/	ratifia /ʁa.ti.fja/	ratifiâmes /ʁa.ti.fjam/	ratifiâtes /ʁa.ti.fjat/	ratifièrent /ʁa.ti.fjɛʁ/
	future	ratifierai /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁe/	ratifieras /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁa/	ratifiera /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁa/	ratifierons /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/	ratifierez /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁe/	ratifieront /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ratifierais /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	ratifierais /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	ratifierait /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁɛ/	ratifierions /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	ratifieriez /ʁa.ti.fi.ʁje/	ratifieraient /ʁa.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	ratifie /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifies /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifie /ʁa.ti.fi/	ratifiions /ʁa.ti.fi.jɔ̃/	ratifiiez /ʁa.ti.fi.je/	ratifient /ʁa.ti.fi/
	imperfect2	ratifiasse /ʁa.ti.fjas/	ratifiasses /ʁa.ti.fjas/	ratifiât /ʁa.ti.fja/	ratifiassions /ʁa.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/	ratifiassiez /ʁa.ti.fja.sje/	ratifiassent /ʁa.ti.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ratifie /ʁa.ti.fi/	—	ratifions /ʁa.ti.fjɔ̃/	ratifiez /ʁa.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

• ratification

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• terrifia