universaliser

French

Etymology

From universel (“universal”) +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.ze/

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Verb

universaliser

1. (transitive) to universalize

Conjugation

Conjugation of universaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	universaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	universalisant /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		universalisé /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	universalise /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalises /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalise /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalisons /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɔ̃/	universalisez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.ze/	universalisent /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/
	imperfect	universalisais /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɛ/	universalisais /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɛ/	universalisait /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɛ/	universalisions /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zjɔ̃/	universalisiez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zje/	universalisaient /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	universalisai /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.ze/	universalisas /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.za/	universalisa /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.za/	universalisâmes /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zam/	universalisâtes /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zat/	universalisèrent /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɛʁ/
	future	universaliserai /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁe/	universaliseras /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁa/	universalisera /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁa/	universaliserons /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁɔ̃/	universaliserez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁe/	universaliseront /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	universaliserais /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁɛ/	universaliserais /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁɛ/	universaliserait /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz.ʁɛ/	universaliserions /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	universaliseriez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zə.ʁje/	universaliseraient /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.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	universalise /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalises /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalise /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	universalisions /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zjɔ̃/	universalisiez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zje/	universalisent /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/
	imperfect2	universalisasse /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zas/	universalisasses /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zas/	universalisât /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.za/	universalisassions /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.za.sjɔ̃/	universalisassiez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.za.sje/	universalisassent /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	universalise /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.liz/	—	universalisons /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.li.zɔ̃/	universalisez /y.ni.vɛʁ.sa.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

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