coloniser
English
Noun
coloniser (plural colonisers)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
Anagrams
- oroclines
French
Etymology
colonie + -iser
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
coloniser
- to colonise
Conjugation
Conjugation of coloniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | coloniser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | colonisant /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | colonisé /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/ | colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ | colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
imperfect | colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ | colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ | colonisait /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ | colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/ | colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/ | colonisaient /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | colonisai /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ | colonisas /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ | colonisa /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ | colonisâmes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zam/ | colonisâtes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zat/ | colonisèrent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛʁ/ | |
future | coloniserai /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/ | coloniseras /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/ | colonisera /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/ | coloniserons /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | coloniserez /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/ | coloniseront /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ | coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ | coloniserait /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ | coloniserions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | coloniseriez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/ | coloniseraient /kɔ.lɔ.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 | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/ | colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/ | colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
imperfect2 | colonisasse /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ | colonisasses /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ | colonisât /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ | colonisassions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/ | colonisassiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sje/ | colonisassent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ | — | colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/ | colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
- colonisateur
Further reading
- “coloniser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.