fossiliser

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

fossiliser

1. to fossilize

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

• fossile

Further reading

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