formative

formateur

Qui influence le développement d’une personne ou d’une chose, surtout à ses débuts.

En anglais simple : Helping to shape how someone or something develops, especially at an early stage.

• Those were my formative years.
• Her first job was a formative experience.
• He spent a formative period studying abroad.

Synonymes : influential, shaping

Expressions courantes : formative years, formative experience, formative period

formateur

Capable de donner une forme ou une structure à quelque chose.

En anglais simple : Able to give something its shape or structure.

• Pressure acts as a formative force.
• The artist explored the formative power of heat.
• These forces played a formative role in shaping the landscape.

Synonymes : shaping

Expressions courantes : formative force, formative power

formateur de tissu

Capable de produire de nouveaux tissus ou de nouvelles parties d’un organisme vivant.

En anglais simple : Able to produce new parts of a living body.

• Formative cells produce new tissue.
• The injury damaged the formative layer.
• Researchers examined the bone’s formative tissue under a microscope.

Synonymes : creant, poietic

Expressions courantes : formative tissue, formative cells

formatif

Qui sert à former des mots ou à modifier leur forme grammaticale.

En anglais simple : Used to make words or change their grammatical forms.

• The ending has a formative function.
• Students identified the formative suffix in each word.
• This formative element marks the plural.

Synonymes : creant, poietic

Expressions courantes : formative suffix, formative affix, formative element

élément formateur

Élément qui contribue à donner sa forme ou sa structure à autre chose.

En anglais simple : Something that helps create the shape or structure of another thing.

• Tradition served as a formative of the community.
• The theory treats pressure as a formative of structure.
• Several formatives contributed to the final shape.

Synonymes : shaping factor

Expressions courantes : a formative, powerful formative

formant, morphème

Petite partie d’un mot qui sert à former des mots ou à indiquer leur forme grammaticale.

En anglais simple : A small part of a word that helps make a word or show its grammatical form.

• The suffix is a plural formative.
• This word contains two formatives.
• A bound formative cannot stand alone as a word.

Synonymes : morpheme

Expressions courantes : plural formative, grammatical formative, bound formative