décommunautariser

French

Etymology

dé- +‎ communautaire +‎ -iser. See notes below to understand the difference of meaning of the word between the EU and Belgium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.ze/

Verb

décommunautariser

1. (uncommon) to centralize communities, making them (progressively or not) lose their distinct identities to merge into a bigger one
2. (European Union) to decentralize competences from the European level to the state level
3. (Belgium) to transfer competences from the linguistic communities to the federal state

Usage notes

At first glance, one could wonder why in the European context, décommunautariser means "decentralise", but in Belgium it means "centralise". It is actually very simple.

Before 2009 and the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union was organised in communities: the ECSC, Euratom, and the EEC (single market). The prefix dé- being used to make antonyms and generally speaking meaning moving away from, the word evolved into "leaving, moving away from the European communities". And thus, decentralizing by giving competences to the member states making up the European Communities.

In Belgium, the communities are political areas based on the language spoken here (either French, Flemish, or German). Thus, by "moving away" from those communities, we can only go towards the central government: we centralize.

Conjugation

Conjugation of décommunautariser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	décommunautariser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	décommunautarisant /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		décommunautarisé /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	décommunautarise /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarises /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarise /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarisons /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɔ̃/	décommunautarisez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.ze/	décommunautarisent /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/
	imperfect	décommunautarisais /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɛ/	décommunautarisais /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɛ/	décommunautarisait /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɛ/	décommunautarisions /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	décommunautarisiez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zje/	décommunautarisaient /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	décommunautarisai /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.ze/	décommunautarisas /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.za/	décommunautarisa /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.za/	décommunautarisâmes /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zam/	décommunautarisâtes /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zat/	décommunautarisèrent /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	décommunautariserai /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁe/	décommunautariseras /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁa/	décommunautarisera /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁa/	décommunautariserons /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	décommunautariserez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁe/	décommunautariseront /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	décommunautariserais /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	décommunautariserais /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	décommunautariserait /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	décommunautariserions /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	décommunautariseriez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	décommunautariseraient /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz.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	décommunautarise /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarises /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarise /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	décommunautarisions /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	décommunautarisiez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zje/	décommunautarisent /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	décommunautarisasse /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zas/	décommunautarisasses /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zas/	décommunautarisât /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.za/	décommunautarisassions /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	décommunautarisassiez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.za.sje/	décommunautarisassent /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	décommunautarise /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁiz/	—	décommunautarisons /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.zɔ̃/	décommunautarisez /de.kɔ.my.no.ta.ʁi.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).

Synonyms

• (Belgium, others) centraliser
• (European Union) décentraliser

Antonyms

• (Belgium, others) communautariser, décentraliser
• (European Union) communautariser, centraliser

Further reading

• "décommunautariser", Dictionnaire des francophones [1]