nasaliser

French

Etymology

From nasal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.za.li.ze/

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Verb

nasaliser

1. (phonetics) to nasalize

Conjugation

Conjugation of nasaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	nasaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nasalisant /na.za.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nasalisé /na.za.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nasalise /na.za.liz/	nasalises /na.za.liz/	nasalise /na.za.liz/	nasalisons /na.za.li.zɔ̃/	nasalisez /na.za.li.ze/	nasalisent /na.za.liz/
	imperfect	nasalisais /na.za.li.zɛ/	nasalisais /na.za.li.zɛ/	nasalisait /na.za.li.zɛ/	nasalisions /na.za.li.zjɔ̃/	nasalisiez /na.za.li.zje/	nasalisaient /na.za.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	nasalisai /na.za.li.ze/	nasalisas /na.za.li.za/	nasalisa /na.za.li.za/	nasalisâmes /na.za.li.zam/	nasalisâtes /na.za.li.zat/	nasalisèrent /na.za.li.zɛʁ/
	future	nasaliserai /na.za.liz.ʁe/	nasaliseras /na.za.liz.ʁa/	nasalisera /na.za.liz.ʁa/	nasaliserons /na.za.liz.ʁɔ̃/	nasaliserez /na.za.liz.ʁe/	nasaliseront /na.za.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	nasaliserais /na.za.liz.ʁɛ/	nasaliserais /na.za.liz.ʁɛ/	nasaliserait /na.za.liz.ʁɛ/	nasaliserions /na.za.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	nasaliseriez /na.za.li.zə.ʁje/	nasaliseraient /na.za.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	nasalise /na.za.liz/	nasalises /na.za.liz/	nasalise /na.za.liz/	nasalisions /na.za.li.zjɔ̃/	nasalisiez /na.za.li.zje/	nasalisent /na.za.liz/
	imperfect2	nasalisasse /na.za.li.zas/	nasalisasses /na.za.li.zas/	nasalisât /na.za.li.za/	nasalisassions /na.za.li.za.sjɔ̃/	nasalisassiez /na.za.li.za.sje/	nasalisassent /na.za.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nasalise /na.za.liz/	—	nasalisons /na.za.li.zɔ̃/	nasalisez /na.za.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).

Related terms

• nasalisation

Further reading

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