fertilize

English

Etymology

fertile +‎ -ize

Alternative forms

• fertilise (mostly British)

Verb

fertilize (third-person singular simple present fertilizes, present participle fertilizing, simple past and past participle fertilized)

1. To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
2. (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.

   to fertilize one's imagination

3. To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

Translations

to make fertile by adding nutrients

• Bulgarian: торя (bg) (torja), наторявам (bg) (natorjavam)
• Catalan: fertilitzar (ca)
• Czech: hnojit (cs)
• Finnish: lannoittaa (fi)
• French: fertiliser (fr)
• German: düngen (de)

• Irish: leasaigh (ga)
• Romanian: fertiliza (ro)
• Russian: удобрять (ru) (udobrját') impf., удобрить (ru) (udóbrit') pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: feamainn (gd)
• Spanish: fertilizar (es)

to make creative or productive

• Finnish: ravita (fi)

• German: befruchten (de)

to inseminate

• Bulgarian: оплождам (bg) (oploždam)
• Czech: oplodnit (cs)
• Finnish: hedelmöittää (fi), siittää (fi)
• German: besamen (de), befruchten (de)
• Irish: toirchigh (ga)

• Romanian: însămânța (ro)
• Russian: оплодотворять (ru) (oplodotvorját') impf., оплодотворить (ru) (oplodotvorít') pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: toraich (gd)

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• Italian: fertilizzare

• Jèrriais: graîssi

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Portuguese

Verb

fertilize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of fertilizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of fertilizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of fertilizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of fertilizar