fossiliser
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Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
fossiliser
- to fossilize
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fossiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fossiliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fossilisant /fɔ.si.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fossilisé /fɔ.si.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fossilise /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilises /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilise /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilisons /fɔ.si.li.zɔ̃/ |
fossilisez /fɔ.si.li.ze/ |
fossilisent /fɔ.si.liz/ |
| imperfect | fossilisais /fɔ.si.li.zɛ/ |
fossilisais /fɔ.si.li.zɛ/ |
fossilisait /fɔ.si.li.zɛ/ |
fossilisions /fɔ.si.li.zjɔ̃/ |
fossilisiez /fɔ.si.li.zje/ |
fossilisaient /fɔ.si.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fossilisai /fɔ.si.li.ze/ |
fossilisas /fɔ.si.li.za/ |
fossilisa /fɔ.si.li.za/ |
fossilisâmes /fɔ.si.li.zam/ |
fossilisâtes /fɔ.si.li.zat/ |
fossilisèrent /fɔ.si.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | fossiliserai /fɔ.si.liz.ʁe/ |
fossiliseras /fɔ.si.liz.ʁa/ |
fossilisera /fɔ.si.liz.ʁa/ |
fossiliserons /fɔ.si.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
fossiliserez /fɔ.si.liz.ʁe/ |
fossiliseront /fɔ.si.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fossiliserais /fɔ.si.liz.ʁɛ/ |
fossiliserais /fɔ.si.liz.ʁɛ/ |
fossiliserait /fɔ.si.liz.ʁɛ/ |
fossiliserions /fɔ.si.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fossiliseriez /fɔ.si.li.zə.ʁje/ |
fossiliseraient /fɔ.si.liz.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 | fossilise /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilises /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilise /fɔ.si.liz/ |
fossilisions /fɔ.si.li.zjɔ̃/ |
fossilisiez /fɔ.si.li.zje/ |
fossilisent /fɔ.si.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | fossilisasse /fɔ.si.li.zas/ |
fossilisasses /fɔ.si.li.zas/ |
fossilisât /fɔ.si.li.za/ |
fossilisassions /fɔ.si.li.za.sjɔ̃/ |
fossilisassiez /fɔ.si.li.za.sje/ |
fossilisassent /fɔ.si.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fossilise /fɔ.si.liz/ |
— | fossilisons /fɔ.si.li.zɔ̃/ |
fossilisez /fɔ.si.li.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “fossiliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.