sympathiser

English

Etymology

sympathise +‎ -er

Noun

sympathiser (plural sympathisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.

French

Etymology

From sympathie +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/

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Verb

sympathiser

1. to hit it off

   Synonym: fraterniser

Conjugation

Conjugation of sympathiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sympathiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sympathisant /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sympathisé /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/	sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/	sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/
	imperfect	sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisait /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/	sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/	sympathisaient /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	sympathisai /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/	sympathisas /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisa /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisâmes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zam/	sympathisâtes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zat/	sympathisèrent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	sympathiserai /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/	sympathiseras /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/	sympathisera /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/	sympathiserons /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	sympathiserez /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/	sympathiseront /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserait /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	sympathiseriez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁje/	sympathiseraient /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.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	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/	sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/	sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/
	imperfect2	sympathisasse /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/	sympathisasses /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/	sympathisât /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisassions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	sympathisassiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sje/	sympathisassent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	—	sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/	sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.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

• sympathisant

Further reading

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