focaliser

English

Noun

focaliser (plural focalisers)

1. (British) Alternative spelling of focalizer

French

Etymology

From focal +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔ.ka.li.ze/

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Verb

focaliser

1. to focus; to focalize
   • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎^[1]:

     Sauf que, cette fois-ci, les élus de la nation, représentés dans la commission des Finances, focalisent toute leur attention sur les hauts salaires.

     This time, however, the nation's elected representatives on the Finance Committee are focusing all their attention on high salaries.

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Derived terms

• défocaliser

Further reading

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