focaliser
English
Noun
focaliser (plural focalisers)
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of focalizer
French
Etymology
focal + -iser
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔ.ka.li.ze/
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Verb
focaliser
- to focus; to focalize
- 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui:
- Sauf que, cette fois-ci, les élus de la nation, représentés dans la commission des Finances, focalisent toute leur attention sur les hauts salaires.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of focaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | focaliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | focalisant /fɔ.ka.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | focalisé /fɔ.ka.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | focalise /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalises /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalise /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalisons /fɔ.ka.li.zɔ̃/ | focalisez /fɔ.ka.li.ze/ | focalisent /fɔ.ka.liz/ |
| imperfect | focalisais /fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ | focalisais /fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ | focalisait /fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ | focalisions /fɔ.ka.li.zjɔ̃/ | focalisiez /fɔ.ka.li.zje/ | focalisaient /fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | focalisai /fɔ.ka.li.ze/ | focalisas /fɔ.ka.li.za/ | focalisa /fɔ.ka.li.za/ | focalisâmes /fɔ.ka.li.zam/ | focalisâtes /fɔ.ka.li.zat/ | focalisèrent /fɔ.ka.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | focaliserai /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁe/ | focaliseras /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁa/ | focalisera /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁa/ | focaliserons /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | focaliserez /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁe/ | focaliseront /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | focaliserais /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ | focaliserais /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ | focaliserait /fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ | focaliserions /fɔ.ka.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | focaliseriez /fɔ.ka.li.zə.ʁje/ | focaliseraient /fɔ.ka.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 | focalise /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalises /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalise /fɔ.ka.liz/ | focalisions /fɔ.ka.li.zjɔ̃/ | focalisiez /fɔ.ka.li.zje/ | focalisent /fɔ.ka.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | focalisasse /fɔ.ka.li.zas/ | focalisasses /fɔ.ka.li.zas/ | focalisât /fɔ.ka.li.za/ | focalisassions /fɔ.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/ | focalisassiez /fɔ.ka.li.za.sje/ | focalisassent /fɔ.ka.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | focalise /fɔ.ka.liz/ | — | focalisons /fɔ.ka.li.zɔ̃/ | focalisez /fɔ.ka.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- défocaliser
Further reading
- “focaliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.