laïciser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.i.si.ze/

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Verb

laïciser

1. to laicize; to secularize

Conjugation

Conjugation of laïciser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	laïciser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	laïcisant /la.i.si.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		laïcisé /la.i.si.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	laïcise /la.i.siz/	laïcises /la.i.siz/	laïcise /la.i.siz/	laïcisons /la.i.si.zɔ̃/	laïcisez /la.i.si.ze/	laïcisent /la.i.siz/
	imperfect	laïcisais /la.i.si.zɛ/	laïcisais /la.i.si.zɛ/	laïcisait /la.i.si.zɛ/	laïcisions /la.i.si.zjɔ̃/	laïcisiez /la.i.si.zje/	laïcisaient /la.i.si.zɛ/
	past historic2	laïcisai /la.i.si.ze/	laïcisas /la.i.si.za/	laïcisa /la.i.si.za/	laïcisâmes /la.i.si.zam/	laïcisâtes /la.i.si.zat/	laïcisèrent /la.i.si.zɛʁ/
	future	laïciserai /la.i.siz.ʁe/	laïciseras /la.i.siz.ʁa/	laïcisera /la.i.siz.ʁa/	laïciserons /la.i.siz.ʁɔ̃/	laïciserez /la.i.siz.ʁe/	laïciseront /la.i.siz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	laïciserais /la.i.siz.ʁɛ/	laïciserais /la.i.siz.ʁɛ/	laïciserait /la.i.siz.ʁɛ/	laïciserions /la.i.si.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	laïciseriez /la.i.si.zə.ʁje/	laïciseraient /la.i.siz.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	laïcise /la.i.siz/	laïcises /la.i.siz/	laïcise /la.i.siz/	laïcisions /la.i.si.zjɔ̃/	laïcisiez /la.i.si.zje/	laïcisent /la.i.siz/
	imperfect2	laïcisasse /la.i.si.zas/	laïcisasses /la.i.si.zas/	laïcisât /la.i.si.za/	laïcisassions /la.i.si.za.sjɔ̃/	laïcisassiez /la.i.si.za.sje/	laïcisassent /la.i.si.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	laïcise /la.i.siz/	—	laïcisons /la.i.si.zɔ̃/	laïcisez /la.i.si.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).

Further reading

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