balkaniser

English

Noun

balkaniser (plural balkanisers)

1. Rare spelling of balkanizer.

French

Etymology

From Balkan +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal.ka.ni.ze/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

balkaniser

1. to Balkanize

Conjugation

Conjugation of balkaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	balkaniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	balkanisant /bal.ka.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		balkanisé /bal.ka.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	balkanise /bal.ka.niz/	balkanises /bal.ka.niz/	balkanise /bal.ka.niz/	balkanisons /bal.ka.ni.zɔ̃/	balkanisez /bal.ka.ni.ze/	balkanisent /bal.ka.niz/
	imperfect	balkanisais /bal.ka.ni.zɛ/	balkanisais /bal.ka.ni.zɛ/	balkanisait /bal.ka.ni.zɛ/	balkanisions /bal.ka.ni.zjɔ̃/	balkanisiez /bal.ka.ni.zje/	balkanisaient /bal.ka.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	balkanisai /bal.ka.ni.ze/	balkanisas /bal.ka.ni.za/	balkanisa /bal.ka.ni.za/	balkanisâmes /bal.ka.ni.zam/	balkanisâtes /bal.ka.ni.zat/	balkanisèrent /bal.ka.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	balkaniserai /bal.ka.niz.ʁe/	balkaniseras /bal.ka.niz.ʁa/	balkanisera /bal.ka.niz.ʁa/	balkaniserons /bal.ka.niz.ʁɔ̃/	balkaniserez /bal.ka.niz.ʁe/	balkaniseront /bal.ka.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	balkaniserais /bal.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	balkaniserais /bal.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	balkaniserait /bal.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	balkaniserions /bal.ka.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	balkaniseriez /bal.ka.ni.zə.ʁje/	balkaniseraient /bal.ka.niz.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	balkanise /bal.ka.niz/	balkanises /bal.ka.niz/	balkanise /bal.ka.niz/	balkanisions /bal.ka.ni.zjɔ̃/	balkanisiez /bal.ka.ni.zje/	balkanisent /bal.ka.niz/
	imperfect2	balkanisasse /bal.ka.ni.zas/	balkanisasses /bal.ka.ni.zas/	balkanisât /bal.ka.ni.za/	balkanisassions /bal.ka.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	balkanisassiez /bal.ka.ni.za.sje/	balkanisassent /bal.ka.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	balkanise /bal.ka.niz/	—	balkanisons /bal.ka.ni.zɔ̃/	balkanisez /bal.ka.ni.ze/	—
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

• balkanisation

Further reading

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