indemniser

French

Etymology

From indemne +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.ze/, (obsolete) /ɛ̃.da(m).ni.ze/

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Verb

indemniser

1. to compensate

Conjugation

Conjugation of indemniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	indemniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	indemnisant /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		indemnisé /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	indemnise /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnises /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnise /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnisons /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɔ̃/	indemnisez /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.ze/	indemnisent /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/
	imperfect	indemnisais /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɛ/	indemnisais /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɛ/	indemnisait /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɛ/	indemnisions /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zjɔ̃/	indemnisiez /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zje/	indemnisaient /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	indemnisai /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.ze/	indemnisas /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.za/	indemnisa /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.za/	indemnisâmes /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zam/	indemnisâtes /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zat/	indemnisèrent /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	indemniserai /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁe/	indemniseras /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁa/	indemnisera /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁa/	indemniserons /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁɔ̃/	indemniserez /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁe/	indemniseront /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	indemniserais /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁɛ/	indemniserais /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁɛ/	indemniserait /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz.ʁɛ/	indemniserions /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	indemniseriez /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zə.ʁje/	indemniseraient /ɛ̃.dɛm.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	indemnise /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnises /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnise /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	indemnisions /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zjɔ̃/	indemnisiez /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zje/	indemnisent /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/
	imperfect2	indemnisasse /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zas/	indemnisasses /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zas/	indemnisât /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.za/	indemnisassions /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	indemnisassiez /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.za.sje/	indemnisassent /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	indemnise /ɛ̃.dɛm.niz/	—	indemnisons /ɛ̃.dɛm.ni.zɔ̃/	indemnisez /ɛ̃.dɛm.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).

Derived terms

• indemnisation
• indemnité

Further reading

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