falsifier

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English falsify

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

▲

Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English falsifier

From falsify + -er.

Noun

falsifier (plural falsifiers)

1. One that falsifies.

Translations

one that falsifies

• Arabic: مُزَيِّف m (muzayyif)
• Armenian: կեղծարար (hy) (keġcarar)
• Belarusian: фальсіфіка́тар m (falʹsifikátar), фальсіфіка́тарка f (falʹsifikátarka)
• Bulgarian: фалшифика́тор (bg) m (falšifikátor), фалшифика́торка f (falšifikátorka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偽造者 / 伪造者 (zh) (wèizàozhě)

• Czech: falzifikátor m, falšovatel m
• Finnish: väärentäjä (fi)
• French: falsificateur (fr) m, falsificatrice (fr) f
• German: Verfälscher m, Verfälscherin f
• Italian: falsificatore m, falsificatrice f
• Polish: fałszerz (pl) m, fałszerka f
• Russian: фальсифика́тор (ru) m (falʹsifikátor)
• Slovak: falzifikátor m
• Spanish: falsificador m, falsificadora (es) f
• Ukrainian: фальсифіка́тор m (falʹsyfikátor), фальсифіка́торка f (falʹsyfikátorka)

Further reading

• “falsifier”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• fife-rails

French

Etymology

Formed from Latin falsus + -ifier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal.si.fje/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: falsifiai, falsifié, falsifiée, falsifiées, falsifiés, falsifiez

Verb

falsifier

1. to falsify (all meanings)

Conjugation

Conjugation of falsifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	falsifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	falsifiant /fal.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		falsifié /fal.si.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	falsifie /fal.si.fi/	falsifies /fal.si.fi/	falsifie /fal.si.fi/	falsifions /fal.si.fjɔ̃/	falsifiez /fal.si.fje/	falsifient /fal.si.fi/
	imperfect	falsifiais /fal.si.fjɛ/	falsifiais /fal.si.fjɛ/	falsifiait /fal.si.fjɛ/	falsifiions /fal.si.fi.jɔ̃/	falsifiiez /fal.si.fi.je/	falsifiaient /fal.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	falsifiai /fal.si.fje/	falsifias /fal.si.fja/	falsifia /fal.si.fja/	falsifiâmes /fal.si.fjam/	falsifiâtes /fal.si.fjat/	falsifièrent /fal.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	falsifierai /fal.si.fi.ʁe/	falsifieras /fal.si.fi.ʁa/	falsifiera /fal.si.fi.ʁa/	falsifierons /fal.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	falsifierez /fal.si.fi.ʁe/	falsifieront /fal.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	falsifierais /fal.si.fi.ʁɛ/	falsifierais /fal.si.fi.ʁɛ/	falsifierait /fal.si.fi.ʁɛ/	falsifierions /fal.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	falsifieriez /fal.si.fi.ʁje/	falsifieraient /fal.si.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	falsifie /fal.si.fi/	falsifies /fal.si.fi/	falsifie /fal.si.fi/	falsifiions /fal.si.fi.jɔ̃/	falsifiiez /fal.si.fi.je/	falsifient /fal.si.fi/
	imperfect2	falsifiasse /fal.si.fjas/	falsifiasses /fal.si.fjas/	falsifiât /fal.si.fja/	falsifiassions /fal.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	falsifiassiez /fal.si.fja.sje/	falsifiassent /fal.si.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	falsifie /fal.si.fi/	—	falsifions /fal.si.fjɔ̃/	falsifiez /fal.si.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

• fausser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• sifflerai