miniaturiser

French

Etymology

From miniature +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

miniaturiser

1. to miniaturize, to scale down

Conjugation

Conjugation of miniaturiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	miniaturiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	miniaturisant /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		miniaturisé /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	miniaturise /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturises /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturise /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturisons /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɔ̃/	miniaturisez /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.ze/	miniaturisent /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/
	imperfect	miniaturisais /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɛ/	miniaturisais /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɛ/	miniaturisait /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɛ/	miniaturisions /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	miniaturisiez /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zje/	miniaturisaient /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	miniaturisai /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.ze/	miniaturisas /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.za/	miniaturisa /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.za/	miniaturisâmes /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zam/	miniaturisâtes /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zat/	miniaturisèrent /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	miniaturiserai /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁe/	miniaturiseras /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁa/	miniaturisera /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁa/	miniaturiserons /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	miniaturiserez /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁe/	miniaturiseront /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	miniaturiserais /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	miniaturiserais /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	miniaturiserait /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	miniaturiserions /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	miniaturiseriez /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	miniaturiseraient /mi.nja.ty.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	miniaturise /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturises /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturise /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	miniaturisions /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	miniaturisiez /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zje/	miniaturisent /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	miniaturisasse /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zas/	miniaturisasses /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zas/	miniaturisât /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.za/	miniaturisassions /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	miniaturisassiez /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.za.sje/	miniaturisassent /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	miniaturise /mi.nja.ty.ʁiz/	—	miniaturisons /mi.nja.ty.ʁi.zɔ̃/	miniaturisez /mi.nja.ty.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

• miniaturisation

Further reading

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