autoriser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French auctorisier, from Medieval Latin auctōrizāre. Doublet of octroyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/, /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

autoriser

1. to authorise
2. to allow

Conjugation

Conjugation of autoriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	autoriser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	autorisant /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		autorisé /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	autorise /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorises /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorise /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorisons /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	autorisez /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/	autorisent /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	autorisais /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	autorisais /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	autorisait /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	autorisions /o.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	autorisiez /o.tɔ.ʁi.zje/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zje/	autorisaient /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	autorisai /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/	autorisas /o.tɔ.ʁi.za/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	autorisa /o.tɔ.ʁi.za/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	autorisâmes /o.tɔ.ʁi.zam/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zam/	autorisâtes /o.tɔ.ʁi.zat/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zat/	autorisèrent /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	autoriserai /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	autoriseras /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	autorisera /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	autoriserons /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	autoriserez /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	autoriseront /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	autoriserais /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	autoriserais /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	autoriserait /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	autoriserions /o.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	autoriseriez /o.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	autoriseraient /o.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ or /ɔ.tɔ.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	autorise /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorises /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorise /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	autorisions /o.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	autorisiez /o.tɔ.ʁi.zje/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zje/	autorisent /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	autorisasse /o.tɔ.ʁi.zas/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/	autorisasses /o.tɔ.ʁi.zas/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/	autorisât /o.tɔ.ʁi.za/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	autorisassions /o.tɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	autorisassiez /o.tɔ.ʁi.za.sje/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	autorisassent /o.tɔ.ʁi.zas/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	autorise /o.tɔ.ʁiz/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	—	autorisons /o.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/ or /ɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	autorisez /o.tɔ.ʁi.ze/ or /ɔ.tɔ.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: 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).

Related terms

• autorisation
• autorité

Descendants

• → Italian: autorizzare
  • → Maltese: awtorizza
• → Romanian: autoriza

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• outrerais, routerais, trouerais

Ladin

Verb

autoriser

1. to authorize

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of autoriser (first conjugation)

infinitive	autoriser, autorisé
auxiliary verb		avei	gerund		autorisan
past participle		autorisé
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	ie	tu	el / ela	nos	vos	ei / eles
present	autorise, autoriseie	autorises, autoriseies	autorisa, autoriseia, autorisea	autorison	autoriseis	autorisa, autoriseia
imperfect	autorisove	autorisoves	autorisova	autorisovan	autorisovais	autorisova
future	autorisaré	autorisaras	autorisarà	autorisaron	autorisareis	autorisarà
subjunctive	che ie	che tu	che el / ela	che nos	che vos	che ei / eles
present	autorise, autoriseie	autorises, autoriseies	autorise, autoriseie	autorison	autoriseis	autorise
imperfect	autorisasse	autorisasses	autorisassa	autorisassan	autorisassais	autorisassa
imperative	–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
	—	autorisa, autoriseia	—	autorison	autorisede	—

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

autoriser

1. imperative of autorisere