concrétiser

French

Etymology

From concret +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.ze/

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Verb

concrétiser

1. to solidify, to make (something) real and tangible, to concretize
2. (sports) to score

   L’équipe a dominé de bout en bout, mais sans concrétiser.

   The team dominated from start to finish, but without scoring.

3. (reflexive, se concrétiser) to become fulfilled, to become a reality

Conjugation

Conjugation of concrétiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	concrétiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	concrétisant /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		concrétisé /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	concrétise /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétises /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétise /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétisons /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɔ̃/	concrétisez /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.ze/	concrétisent /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/
	imperfect	concrétisais /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɛ/	concrétisais /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɛ/	concrétisait /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɛ/	concrétisions /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zjɔ̃/	concrétisiez /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zje/	concrétisaient /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	concrétisai /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.ze/	concrétisas /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.za/	concrétisa /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.za/	concrétisâmes /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zam/	concrétisâtes /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zat/	concrétisèrent /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	concrétiserai /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁe/	concrétiseras /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁa/	concrétisera /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁa/	concrétiserons /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	concrétiserez /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁe/	concrétiseront /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	concrétiserais /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁɛ/	concrétiserais /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁɛ/	concrétiserait /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz.ʁɛ/	concrétiserions /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	concrétiseriez /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zə.ʁje/	concrétiseraient /kɔ̃.kʁe.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	concrétise /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétises /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétise /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	concrétisions /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zjɔ̃/	concrétisiez /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zje/	concrétisent /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/
	imperfect2	concrétisasse /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zas/	concrétisasses /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zas/	concrétisât /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.za/	concrétisassions /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	concrétisassiez /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.za.sje/	concrétisassent /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	concrétise /kɔ̃.kʁe.tiz/	—	concrétisons /kɔ̃.kʁe.ti.zɔ̃/	concrétisez /kɔ̃.kʁe.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).

Descendants

• → Romanian: concretiza

Further reading

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