franciser

French

Etymology

From the stem of français +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃.si.ze/

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Verb

franciser

1. (transitive) to Frenchify

Conjugation

Conjugation of franciser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	franciser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	francisant /fʁɑ̃.si.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		francisé /fʁɑ̃.si.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	francise /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francises /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francise /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francisons /fʁɑ̃.si.zɔ̃/	francisez /fʁɑ̃.si.ze/	francisent /fʁɑ̃.siz/
	imperfect	francisais /fʁɑ̃.si.zɛ/	francisais /fʁɑ̃.si.zɛ/	francisait /fʁɑ̃.si.zɛ/	francisions /fʁɑ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	francisiez /fʁɑ̃.si.zje/	francisaient /fʁɑ̃.si.zɛ/
	past historic2	francisai /fʁɑ̃.si.ze/	francisas /fʁɑ̃.si.za/	francisa /fʁɑ̃.si.za/	francisâmes /fʁɑ̃.si.zam/	francisâtes /fʁɑ̃.si.zat/	francisèrent /fʁɑ̃.si.zɛʁ/
	future	franciserai /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁe/	franciseras /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁa/	francisera /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁa/	franciserons /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁɔ̃/	franciserez /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁe/	franciseront /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	franciserais /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	franciserais /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	franciserait /fʁɑ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	franciserions /fʁɑ̃.si.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	franciseriez /fʁɑ̃.si.zə.ʁje/	franciseraient /fʁɑ̃.siz.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	francise /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francises /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francise /fʁɑ̃.siz/	francisions /fʁɑ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	francisiez /fʁɑ̃.si.zje/	francisent /fʁɑ̃.siz/
	imperfect2	francisasse /fʁɑ̃.si.zas/	francisasses /fʁɑ̃.si.zas/	francisât /fʁɑ̃.si.za/	francisassions /fʁɑ̃.si.za.sjɔ̃/	francisassiez /fʁɑ̃.si.za.sje/	francisassent /fʁɑ̃.si.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	francise /fʁɑ̃.siz/	—	francisons /fʁɑ̃.si.zɔ̃/	francisez /fʁɑ̃.si.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

• francisation

Further reading

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