germaniser

French

Etymology

From germain +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/

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Verb

germaniser

1. to Germanize

Conjugation

Conjugation of germaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	germaniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	germanisant /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		germanisé /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	germanise /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanises /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanise /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanisons /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɔ̃/	germanisez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/	germanisent /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/
	imperfect	germanisais /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɛ/	germanisais /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɛ/	germanisait /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɛ/	germanisions /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zjɔ̃/	germanisiez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zje/	germanisaient /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	germanisai /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.ze/	germanisas /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.za/	germanisa /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.za/	germanisâmes /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zam/	germanisâtes /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zat/	germanisèrent /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	germaniserai /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁe/	germaniseras /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁa/	germanisera /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁa/	germaniserons /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁɔ̃/	germaniserez /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁe/	germaniseront /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	germaniserais /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁɛ/	germaniserais /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁɛ/	germaniserait /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.ʁɛ/	germaniserions /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	germaniseriez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zə.ʁje/	germaniseraient /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz.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	germanise /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanises /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanise /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	germanisions /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zjɔ̃/	germanisiez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zje/	germanisent /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/
	imperfect2	germanisasse /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zas/	germanisasses /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zas/	germanisât /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.za/	germanisassions /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	germanisassiez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.za.sje/	germanisassent /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	germanise /ʒɛʁ.ma.niz/	—	germanisons /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.zɔ̃/	germanisez /ʒɛʁ.ma.ni.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).

Further reading

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