qualify

remplir les conditions, se qualifier

Remplir les conditions nécessaires pour recevoir quelque chose, participer à une compétition ou exercer un métier.

En anglais simple : To meet the conditions needed to receive something, enter a competition, or do a particular job.

• Do I qualify for a discount?
• Our team qualified for the final.
• He hopes to qualify as an electrician.

Comment l'utiliser : qualify for something (You may qualify for a free ticket.); qualify as something (She qualified as a nurse last year.); qualify to do something (Only the top teams qualify to compete in the final.)

Synonymes : be eligible, be entitled

Expressions courantes : qualify for something, qualify as something, qualify to compete

qualifier, habiliter

Donner à quelqu’un les compétences ou les conditions nécessaires pour faire ou obtenir quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To give someone the skills or conditions they need to do something or receive something.

• Your income qualifies you for help.
• The course qualified her to repair engines.
• Does this degree qualify me for the job?

Comment l'utiliser : qualify someone for something (Your experience qualifies you for this job.); qualify someone to do something (This certificate qualifies you to teach swimming.)

Synonymes : make eligible, equip

Contraires : disqualify

Expressions courantes : qualify someone, qualify someone for something

être considéré comme, constituer

Avoir les caractéristiques nécessaires pour être considéré comme une certaine chose.

En anglais simple : To have the features needed to be considered a particular thing.

• Does this qualify as art?
• That meal certainly qualifies as a feast.
• His behaviour qualified as a serious breach of trust.

Comment l'utiliser : qualify as something (This small room hardly qualifies as a bedroom.)

Synonymes : count as, rank as

Expressions courantes : qualify as something, qualify as art

nuancer, restreindre

Ajouter des précisions ou des conditions à une affirmation pour la rendre moins générale ou moins catégorique.

En anglais simple : To add details or conditions to a statement so that it is less general or certain.

• I should qualify that statement.
• He qualified his praise by mentioning several weaknesses.
• The researcher qualified her claim with a warning about the small sample.

Comment l'utiliser : qualify something with something (She qualified her agreement with several conditions.)

Synonymes : limit, modify, restrict

Expressions courantes : qualify a statement, qualify a claim, qualify something with something

qualifier, modifier

Préciser ou limiter le sens d’un autre mot ou d’une expression.

En anglais simple : To add to or limit the meaning of another word or phrase.

• Adjectives can qualify nouns.
• Here, 'small' qualifies 'house'.
• Which word does this adverb qualify?

Synonymes : modify

Expressions courantes : qualify a noun, qualify a verb

rattraper chaque objet deux fois

Lancer et rattraper chaque objet au moins deux fois en jonglant.

En anglais simple : To throw and catch each object at least twice while juggling.

• She can qualify five balls.
• He qualified seven rings after months of practice.
• To qualify six clubs, you need twelve catches.

Expressions courantes : qualify seven balls, qualify five clubs