pulvériser
See also: pulveriser
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pulverizāre, from Latin pulvis, pulveris (“dust, powder”) (whence French poudre).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pulvériser
- (transitive) to pulverise (to grind into powder)
- Near-synonym: réduire en poussière
- (transitive, informal, figuratively) to pulverise (defeat thoroughly)
- Son principal objectif a toujours été de pulvériser le monde. ― His main objective has always been to destroy the world.
- to spray (to project as liquid droplets)
- pulvériser de l’eau sur une plante ― to spray water on a plant
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pulvériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pulvériser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pulvérisant /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pulvérisé /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérises /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérisons /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
pulvérisez /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/ |
pulvérisent /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect | pulvérisais /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/ |
pulvérisais /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/ |
pulvérisait /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/ |
pulvérisions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
pulvérisiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zje/ |
pulvérisaient /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pulvérisai /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/ |
pulvérisas /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/ |
pulvérisa /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/ |
pulvérisâmes /pyl.ve.ʁi.zam/ |
pulvérisâtes /pyl.ve.ʁi.zat/ |
pulvérisèrent /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | pulvériserai /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
pulvériseras /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
pulvérisera /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
pulvériserons /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
pulvériserez /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
pulvériseront /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pulvériserais /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
pulvériserais /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
pulvériserait /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
pulvériserions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pulvériseriez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zə.ʁje/ |
pulvériseraient /pyl.ve.ʁiz.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 | pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérises /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
pulvérisions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
pulvérisiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zje/ |
pulvérisent /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect2 | pulvérisasse /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/ |
pulvérisasses /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/ |
pulvérisât /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/ |
pulvérisassions /pyl.ve.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ |
pulvérisassiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.za.sje/ |
pulvérisassent /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/ |
— | pulvérisons /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
pulvérisez /pyl.ve.ʁi.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). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pulvériser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.