civiliser

English

Noun

civiliser (plural civilisers)

1. Alternative form of civilizer

French

Etymology

From civil +‎ -iser Borrowed from Latin cīvīlis.

Pronunciation

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Verb

civiliser

1. (transitive) to civilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of civiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	civiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	civilisant /si.vi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		civilisé /si.vi.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	civilise /si.vi.liz/	civilises /si.vi.liz/	civilise /si.vi.liz/	civilisons /si.vi.li.zɔ̃/	civilisez /si.vi.li.ze/	civilisent /si.vi.liz/
	imperfect	civilisais /si.vi.li.zɛ/	civilisais /si.vi.li.zɛ/	civilisait /si.vi.li.zɛ/	civilisions /si.vi.li.zjɔ̃/	civilisiez /si.vi.li.zje/	civilisaient /si.vi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	civilisai /si.vi.li.ze/	civilisas /si.vi.li.za/	civilisa /si.vi.li.za/	civilisâmes /si.vi.li.zam/	civilisâtes /si.vi.li.zat/	civilisèrent /si.vi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	civiliserai /si.vi.liz.ʁe/	civiliseras /si.vi.liz.ʁa/	civilisera /si.vi.liz.ʁa/	civiliserons /si.vi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	civiliserez /si.vi.liz.ʁe/	civiliseront /si.vi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	civiliserais /si.vi.liz.ʁɛ/	civiliserais /si.vi.liz.ʁɛ/	civiliserait /si.vi.liz.ʁɛ/	civiliserions /si.vi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	civiliseriez /si.vi.li.zə.ʁje/	civiliseraient /si.vi.liz.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	civilise /si.vi.liz/	civilises /si.vi.liz/	civilise /si.vi.liz/	civilisions /si.vi.li.zjɔ̃/	civilisiez /si.vi.li.zje/	civilisent /si.vi.liz/
	imperfect2	civilisasse /si.vi.li.zas/	civilisasses /si.vi.li.zas/	civilisât /si.vi.li.za/	civilisassions /si.vi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	civilisassiez /si.vi.li.za.sje/	civilisassent /si.vi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	civilise /si.vi.liz/	—	civilisons /si.vi.li.zɔ̃/	civilisez /si.vi.li.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).

Derived terms

• civilisation

Further reading

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