subtiliser
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.ti.li.ze/
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Verb
subtiliser
- (transitive) to snatch; take possession of
- subtiliser la montre à l'homme
- snatch the watch off the man
Conjugation
Conjugation of subtiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | subtiliser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | subtilisant /syp.ti.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | subtilisé /syp.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 | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilises /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilisons /syp.ti.li.zɔ̃/ | subtilisez /syp.ti.li.ze/ | subtilisent /syp.ti.liz/ |
imperfect | subtilisais /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ | subtilisais /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ | subtilisait /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ | subtilisions /syp.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ | subtilisiez /syp.ti.li.zje/ | subtilisaient /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | subtilisai /syp.ti.li.ze/ | subtilisas /syp.ti.li.za/ | subtilisa /syp.ti.li.za/ | subtilisâmes /syp.ti.li.zam/ | subtilisâtes /syp.ti.li.zat/ | subtilisèrent /syp.ti.li.zɛʁ/ | |
future | subtiliserai /syp.ti.liz.ʁe/ | subtiliseras /syp.ti.liz.ʁa/ | subtilisera /syp.ti.liz.ʁa/ | subtiliserons /syp.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | subtiliserez /syp.ti.liz.ʁe/ | subtiliseront /syp.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | subtiliserais /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | subtiliserais /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | subtiliserait /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ | subtiliserions /syp.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | subtiliseriez /syp.ti.li.zə.ʁje/ | subtiliseraient /syp.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 | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilises /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ | subtilisions /syp.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ | subtilisiez /syp.ti.li.zje/ | subtilisent /syp.ti.liz/ |
imperfect2 | subtilisasse /syp.ti.li.zas/ | subtilisasses /syp.ti.li.zas/ | subtilisât /syp.ti.li.za/ | subtilisassions /syp.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/ | subtilisassiez /syp.ti.li.za.sje/ | subtilisassent /syp.ti.li.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ | — | subtilisons /syp.ti.li.zɔ̃/ | subtilisez /syp.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). |
Further reading
- “subtiliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.