familiariser

English

Noun

familiariser (plural familiarisers)

1. Alternative form of familiarizer

French

Etymology

From familier +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

familiariser

1. (transitive) to familiarize
2. (reflexive) to acquaint oneself [with avec ‘with something’]

Conjugation

Conjugation of familiariser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	familiariser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	familiarisant /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		familiarisé /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	familiarise /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarises /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarise /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarisons /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɔ̃/	familiarisez /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.ze/	familiarisent /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/
	imperfect	familiarisais /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɛ/	familiarisais /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɛ/	familiarisait /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɛ/	familiarisions /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	familiarisiez /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zje/	familiarisaient /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	familiarisai /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.ze/	familiarisas /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.za/	familiarisa /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.za/	familiarisâmes /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zam/	familiarisâtes /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zat/	familiarisèrent /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	familiariserai /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁe/	familiariseras /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁa/	familiarisera /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁa/	familiariserons /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	familiariserez /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁe/	familiariseront /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	familiariserais /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	familiariserais /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	familiariserait /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	familiariserions /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	familiariseriez /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	familiariseraient /fa.mi.lja.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	familiarise /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarises /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarise /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	familiarisions /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	familiarisiez /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zje/	familiarisent /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	familiarisasse /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zas/	familiarisasses /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zas/	familiarisât /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.za/	familiarisassions /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	familiarisassiez /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.za.sje/	familiarisassent /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	familiarise /fa.mi.lja.ʁiz/	—	familiarisons /fa.mi.lja.ʁi.zɔ̃/	familiarisez /fa.mi.lja.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).

Derived terms

• familiarisation

Further reading

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