canaliser

French

Etymology

From canal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.li.ze/

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Verb

canaliser

1. to channel; to canalise (direct the flow)
2. to canalise (render into a canal)
3. to channel (direct one's efforts)

Conjugation

Conjugation of canaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	canaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	canalisant /ka.na.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		canalisé /ka.na.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	canalise /ka.na.liz/	canalises /ka.na.liz/	canalise /ka.na.liz/	canalisons /ka.na.li.zɔ̃/	canalisez /ka.na.li.ze/	canalisent /ka.na.liz/
	imperfect	canalisais /ka.na.li.zɛ/	canalisais /ka.na.li.zɛ/	canalisait /ka.na.li.zɛ/	canalisions /ka.na.li.zjɔ̃/	canalisiez /ka.na.li.zje/	canalisaient /ka.na.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	canalisai /ka.na.li.ze/	canalisas /ka.na.li.za/	canalisa /ka.na.li.za/	canalisâmes /ka.na.li.zam/	canalisâtes /ka.na.li.zat/	canalisèrent /ka.na.li.zɛʁ/
	future	canaliserai /ka.na.liz.ʁe/	canaliseras /ka.na.liz.ʁa/	canalisera /ka.na.liz.ʁa/	canaliserons /ka.na.liz.ʁɔ̃/	canaliserez /ka.na.liz.ʁe/	canaliseront /ka.na.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	canaliserais /ka.na.liz.ʁɛ/	canaliserais /ka.na.liz.ʁɛ/	canaliserait /ka.na.liz.ʁɛ/	canaliserions /ka.na.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	canaliseriez /ka.na.li.zə.ʁje/	canaliseraient /ka.na.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	canalise /ka.na.liz/	canalises /ka.na.liz/	canalise /ka.na.liz/	canalisions /ka.na.li.zjɔ̃/	canalisiez /ka.na.li.zje/	canalisent /ka.na.liz/
	imperfect2	canalisasse /ka.na.li.zas/	canalisasses /ka.na.li.zas/	canalisât /ka.na.li.za/	canalisassions /ka.na.li.za.sjɔ̃/	canalisassiez /ka.na.li.za.sje/	canalisassent /ka.na.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	canalise /ka.na.liz/	—	canalisons /ka.na.li.zɔ̃/	canalisez /ka.na.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• canal

Further reading

• “canaliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• câlineras
• lancerais
• relançais
• renâclais