tétaniser
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
tétaniser
- to tetanize
- (usually in the past participle) to petrify, to scare stiff
Conjugation
Conjugation of tétaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | tétaniser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | tétanisant /te.ta.ni.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | tétanisé /te.ta.ni.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | tétanise /te.ta.niz/ | tétanises /te.ta.niz/ | tétanise /te.ta.niz/ | tétanisons /te.ta.ni.zɔ̃/ | tétanisez /te.ta.ni.ze/ | tétanisent /te.ta.niz/ |
imperfect | tétanisais /te.ta.ni.zɛ/ | tétanisais /te.ta.ni.zɛ/ | tétanisait /te.ta.ni.zɛ/ | tétanisions /te.ta.ni.zjɔ̃/ | tétanisiez /te.ta.ni.zje/ | tétanisaient /te.ta.ni.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | tétanisai /te.ta.ni.ze/ | tétanisas /te.ta.ni.za/ | tétanisa /te.ta.ni.za/ | tétanisâmes /te.ta.ni.zam/ | tétanisâtes /te.ta.ni.zat/ | tétanisèrent /te.ta.ni.zɛʁ/ | |
future | tétaniserai /te.ta.niz.ʁe/ | tétaniseras /te.ta.niz.ʁa/ | tétanisera /te.ta.niz.ʁa/ | tétaniserons /te.ta.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | tétaniserez /te.ta.niz.ʁe/ | tétaniseront /te.ta.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | tétaniserais /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/ | tétaniserais /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/ | tétaniserait /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/ | tétaniserions /te.ta.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tétaniseriez /te.ta.ni.zə.ʁje/ | tétaniseraient /te.ta.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 | tétanise /te.ta.niz/ | tétanises /te.ta.niz/ | tétanise /te.ta.niz/ | tétanisions /te.ta.ni.zjɔ̃/ | tétanisiez /te.ta.ni.zje/ | tétanisent /te.ta.niz/ |
imperfect2 | tétanisasse /te.ta.ni.zas/ | tétanisasses /te.ta.ni.zas/ | tétanisât /te.ta.ni.za/ | tétanisassions /te.ta.ni.za.sjɔ̃/ | tétanisassiez /te.ta.ni.za.sje/ | tétanisassent /te.ta.ni.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tétanise /te.ta.niz/ | — | tétanisons /te.ta.ni.zɔ̃/ | tétanisez /te.ta.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
- tétanisation
Related terms
- tétanie
- tétanique
Further reading
- “tétaniser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- inertâtes, rainettes, restaient, retentais, stéraient, teinteras, tenterais, tersaient