ridiculiser

French

Etymology

From ridicule +‎ -iser, attested since 1675. Displaced older ridiculer and ridiculariser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.di.ky.li.ze/

• Audio (Paris):

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Verb

ridiculiser

1. (transitive) to ridicule

   Synonyms: tourner en dérision, tourner en ridicule

Conjugation

Conjugation of ridiculiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ridiculiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ridiculisant /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ridiculisé /ʁi.di.ky.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ridiculise /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculises /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculise /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculisons /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɔ̃/	ridiculisez /ʁi.di.ky.li.ze/	ridiculisent /ʁi.di.ky.liz/
	imperfect	ridiculisais /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɛ/	ridiculisais /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɛ/	ridiculisait /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɛ/	ridiculisions /ʁi.di.ky.li.zjɔ̃/	ridiculisiez /ʁi.di.ky.li.zje/	ridiculisaient /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	ridiculisai /ʁi.di.ky.li.ze/	ridiculisas /ʁi.di.ky.li.za/	ridiculisa /ʁi.di.ky.li.za/	ridiculisâmes /ʁi.di.ky.li.zam/	ridiculisâtes /ʁi.di.ky.li.zat/	ridiculisèrent /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɛʁ/
	future	ridiculiserai /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁe/	ridiculiseras /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁa/	ridiculisera /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁa/	ridiculiserons /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁɔ̃/	ridiculiserez /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁe/	ridiculiseront /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ridiculiserais /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁɛ/	ridiculiserais /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁɛ/	ridiculiserait /ʁi.di.ky.liz.ʁɛ/	ridiculiserions /ʁi.di.ky.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	ridiculiseriez /ʁi.di.ky.li.zə.ʁje/	ridiculiseraient /ʁi.di.ky.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	ridiculise /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculises /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculise /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	ridiculisions /ʁi.di.ky.li.zjɔ̃/	ridiculisiez /ʁi.di.ky.li.zje/	ridiculisent /ʁi.di.ky.liz/
	imperfect2	ridiculisasse /ʁi.di.ky.li.zas/	ridiculisasses /ʁi.di.ky.li.zas/	ridiculisât /ʁi.di.ky.li.za/	ridiculisassions /ʁi.di.ky.li.za.sjɔ̃/	ridiculisassiez /ʁi.di.ky.li.za.sje/	ridiculisassent /ʁi.di.ky.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ridiculise /ʁi.di.ky.liz/	—	ridiculisons /ʁi.di.ky.li.zɔ̃/	ridiculisez /ʁi.di.ky.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).

Further reading

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