fertiliser
English
Noun
fertiliser (countable and uncountable, plural fertilisers)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of fertilizer
French
Etymology
fertile + -iser
Pronunciation
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Verb
fertiliser
- to fertilize
Conjugation
Conjugation of fertiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fertiliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fertilisant /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fertilisé /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilises /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilisons /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɔ̃/ | fertilisez /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/ | fertilisent /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect | fertilisais /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/ | fertilisais /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/ | fertilisait /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/ | fertilisions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ | fertilisiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zje/ | fertilisaient /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fertilisai /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/ | fertilisas /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/ | fertilisa /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/ | fertilisâmes /fɛʁ.ti.li.zam/ | fertilisâtes /fɛʁ.ti.li.zat/ | fertilisèrent /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | fertiliserai /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁe/ | fertiliseras /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁa/ | fertilisera /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁa/ | fertiliserons /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | fertiliserez /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁe/ | fertiliseront /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fertiliserais /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | fertiliserais /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | fertiliserait /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | fertiliserions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fertiliseriez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zə.ʁje/ | fertiliseraient /fɛʁ.ti.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 | fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilises /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | fertilisions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ | fertilisiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zje/ | fertilisent /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | fertilisasse /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/ | fertilisasses /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/ | fertilisât /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/ | fertilisassions /fɛʁ.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/ | fertilisassiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.za.sje/ | fertilisassent /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/ | — | fertilisons /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɔ̃/ | fertilisez /fɛʁ.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- fertilisation
Further reading
- “fertiliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.