tatamiser

French

Etymology

From tatami +‎ -iser, from Japanese 畳 (“tatami mat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta.mi.ze/

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Verb

tatamiser

1. (informal) to be or to become Japanese in culture or style; to Japanize
   • 1991, Bernard Quemada, quoting Madame Figaro (July 7, 1990), Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français: Néologismes du français contemporain [Materials for the study of French vocabulary: Contemporary French neologisms], volume 37, page 305:

     Dès lors, elle est saisie d’une rage d’apprendre: non pour denevir japonaise, se ‘tatamiser’ comme disent les Occidentaux, mais pour comprendre et communiquer.

     From that time, she was seized with a passion to learn: not to become Japanese, to ‘nipponize’ as they say in the West, but to understand and communicate.

   • 2012, Régis Arnaud, “François Caron: le premier Français converti au Japon [François Caron: the first French convert to Japanese]”, in Le Figaro‎^[1]:

     François Caron, lui, au contraire, se «tatamise», apprend le japonais et fonde un foyer avec une autochtone, à qui il fait six enfants.

     François Caron, on the contrary, ‘Japanizes’; he learns Japanese and makes his home with a local woman, with whom he has six children.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tatamiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tatamiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tatamisant /ta.ta.mi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tatamisé /ta.ta.mi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tatamise /ta.ta.miz/	tatamises /ta.ta.miz/	tatamise /ta.ta.miz/	tatamisons /ta.ta.mi.zɔ̃/	tatamisez /ta.ta.mi.ze/	tatamisent /ta.ta.miz/
	imperfect	tatamisais /ta.ta.mi.zɛ/	tatamisais /ta.ta.mi.zɛ/	tatamisait /ta.ta.mi.zɛ/	tatamisions /ta.ta.mi.zjɔ̃/	tatamisiez /ta.ta.mi.zje/	tatamisaient /ta.ta.mi.zɛ/
	past historic2	tatamisai /ta.ta.mi.ze/	tatamisas /ta.ta.mi.za/	tatamisa /ta.ta.mi.za/	tatamisâmes /ta.ta.mi.zam/	tatamisâtes /ta.ta.mi.zat/	tatamisèrent /ta.ta.mi.zɛʁ/
	future	tatamiserai /ta.ta.miz.ʁe/	tatamiseras /ta.ta.miz.ʁa/	tatamisera /ta.ta.miz.ʁa/	tatamiserons /ta.ta.miz.ʁɔ̃/	tatamiserez /ta.ta.miz.ʁe/	tatamiseront /ta.ta.miz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tatamiserais /ta.ta.miz.ʁɛ/	tatamiserais /ta.ta.miz.ʁɛ/	tatamiserait /ta.ta.miz.ʁɛ/	tatamiserions /ta.ta.mi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	tatamiseriez /ta.ta.mi.zə.ʁje/	tatamiseraient /ta.ta.miz.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	tatamise /ta.ta.miz/	tatamises /ta.ta.miz/	tatamise /ta.ta.miz/	tatamisions /ta.ta.mi.zjɔ̃/	tatamisiez /ta.ta.mi.zje/	tatamisent /ta.ta.miz/
	imperfect2	tatamisasse /ta.ta.mi.zas/	tatamisasses /ta.ta.mi.zas/	tatamisât /ta.ta.mi.za/	tatamisassions /ta.ta.mi.za.sjɔ̃/	tatamisassiez /ta.ta.mi.za.sje/	tatamisassent /ta.ta.mi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tatamise /ta.ta.miz/	—	tatamisons /ta.ta.mi.zɔ̃/	tatamisez /ta.ta.mi.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).