masculiniser

French

Etymology

From masculin +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.ky.li.ni.ze/

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Verb

masculiniser

1. to masculinize (make (more) masculine)

   Antonym: féminiser

Conjugation

Conjugation of masculiniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	masculiniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	masculinisant /mas.ky.li.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		masculinisé /mas.ky.li.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	masculinise /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinises /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinise /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinisons /mas.ky.li.ni.zɔ̃/	masculinisez /mas.ky.li.ni.ze/	masculinisent /mas.ky.li.niz/
	imperfect	masculinisais /mas.ky.li.ni.zɛ/	masculinisais /mas.ky.li.ni.zɛ/	masculinisait /mas.ky.li.ni.zɛ/	masculinisions /mas.ky.li.ni.zjɔ̃/	masculinisiez /mas.ky.li.ni.zje/	masculinisaient /mas.ky.li.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	masculinisai /mas.ky.li.ni.ze/	masculinisas /mas.ky.li.ni.za/	masculinisa /mas.ky.li.ni.za/	masculinisâmes /mas.ky.li.ni.zam/	masculinisâtes /mas.ky.li.ni.zat/	masculinisèrent /mas.ky.li.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	masculiniserai /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁe/	masculiniseras /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁa/	masculinisera /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁa/	masculiniserons /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁɔ̃/	masculiniserez /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁe/	masculiniseront /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	masculiniserais /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁɛ/	masculiniserais /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁɛ/	masculiniserait /mas.ky.li.niz.ʁɛ/	masculiniserions /mas.ky.li.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	masculiniseriez /mas.ky.li.ni.zə.ʁje/	masculiniseraient /mas.ky.li.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	masculinise /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinises /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinise /mas.ky.li.niz/	masculinisions /mas.ky.li.ni.zjɔ̃/	masculinisiez /mas.ky.li.ni.zje/	masculinisent /mas.ky.li.niz/
	imperfect2	masculinisasse /mas.ky.li.ni.zas/	masculinisasses /mas.ky.li.ni.zas/	masculinisât /mas.ky.li.ni.za/	masculinisassions /mas.ky.li.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	masculinisassiez /mas.ky.li.ni.za.sje/	masculinisassent /mas.ky.li.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	masculinise /mas.ky.li.niz/	—	masculinisons /mas.ky.li.ni.zɔ̃/	masculinisez /mas.ky.li.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).

Derived terms

• masculinisation

Further reading

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