inciser

French

Etymology

From Middle French inciser, from Old French enciser, from Vulgar Latin *incīsāre, frequentative of incidō, incidēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.si.ze/

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Verb

inciser

1. to incise, make an incision

Conjugation

Conjugation of inciser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inciser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	incisant /ɛ̃.si.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		incisé /ɛ̃.si.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	incise /ɛ̃.siz/	incises /ɛ̃.siz/	incise /ɛ̃.siz/	incisons /ɛ̃.si.zɔ̃/	incisez /ɛ̃.si.ze/	incisent /ɛ̃.siz/
	imperfect	incisais /ɛ̃.si.zɛ/	incisais /ɛ̃.si.zɛ/	incisait /ɛ̃.si.zɛ/	incisions /ɛ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	incisiez /ɛ̃.si.zje/	incisaient /ɛ̃.si.zɛ/
	past historic2	incisai /ɛ̃.si.ze/	incisas /ɛ̃.si.za/	incisa /ɛ̃.si.za/	incisâmes /ɛ̃.si.zam/	incisâtes /ɛ̃.si.zat/	incisèrent /ɛ̃.si.zɛʁ/
	future	inciserai /ɛ̃.siz.ʁe/	inciseras /ɛ̃.siz.ʁa/	incisera /ɛ̃.siz.ʁa/	inciserons /ɛ̃.siz.ʁɔ̃/	inciserez /ɛ̃.siz.ʁe/	inciseront /ɛ̃.siz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inciserais /ɛ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	inciserais /ɛ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	inciserait /ɛ̃.siz.ʁɛ/	inciserions /ɛ̃.si.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	inciseriez /ɛ̃.si.zə.ʁje/	inciseraient /ɛ̃.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	incise /ɛ̃.siz/	incises /ɛ̃.siz/	incise /ɛ̃.siz/	incisions /ɛ̃.si.zjɔ̃/	incisiez /ɛ̃.si.zje/	incisent /ɛ̃.siz/
	imperfect2	incisasse /ɛ̃.si.zas/	incisasses /ɛ̃.si.zas/	incisât /ɛ̃.si.za/	incisassions /ɛ̃.si.za.sjɔ̃/	incisassiez /ɛ̃.si.za.sje/	incisassent /ɛ̃.si.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	incise /ɛ̃.siz/	—	incisons /ɛ̃.si.zɔ̃/	incisez /ɛ̃.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).

Descendants

• → Albanian: incizoj
• → Romanian: inciza

Further reading

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