motoriser

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

motoriser

1. to motorize (to provide with a motor or motors)

Conjugation

Conjugation of motoriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	motoriser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	motorisant /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		motorisé /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	motorise /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorises /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorise /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorisons /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	motorisez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/	motorisent /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	motorisais /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	motorisais /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	motorisait /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	motorisions /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	motorisiez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zje/	motorisaient /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	motorisai /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.ze/	motorisas /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	motorisa /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	motorisâmes /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zam/	motorisâtes /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zat/	motorisèrent /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	motoriserai /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	motoriseras /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	motorisera /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	motoriserons /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	motoriserez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	motoriseront /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	motoriserais /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	motoriserais /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	motoriserait /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	motoriserions /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	motoriseriez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	motoriseraient /mɔ.tɔ.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	motorise /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorises /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorise /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	motorisions /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	motorisiez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zje/	motorisent /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	motorisasse /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/	motorisasses /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/	motorisât /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za/	motorisassions /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	motorisassiez /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	motorisassent /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	motorise /mɔ.tɔ.ʁiz/	—	motorisons /mɔ.tɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	motorisez /mɔ.tɔ.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).

Further reading

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