priser

English

Noun

priser (plural prisers)

1. A tool for prising something open.
   • 1863, J. Pascoe, The Brigantine, page 263:

     "Well, then, here goes to shatter his timbers," said Grasper, with a lively tone; and seizing, as he spoke, a weighty crowbar from Dan, he assailed the door. […] "Here, Dan," said he, " bring another priser."

2. Obsolete form of prizer.

Anagrams

• Perris, Priers, irreps, priers, sprier

Danish

Noun

priser c

1. indefinite plural of pris
2. indefinite plural of prise

Verb

priser

1. present of prise

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.ze/

Etymology 1

Verbalization of prise, itself a deverbalization of prise, the feminine past participle of prendre (“to take”).

Verb

priser

1. (transitive) to snuff, take snuff (to inhale a drug or other substance through the nose)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin pretiāre, pretiō (“to appraise”), from Latin pretium (“price”). Unrelated to pris, the past participle of prendre, although it might be remotivated in that way by contemporary French speakers.

Verb

priser

1. (transitive) to price (fix a price according to market forces)
2. (transitive) to prize (consider something valuable)

Conjugation

Conjugation of priser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	priser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prisant /pʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prisé /pʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prise /pʁiz/	prises /pʁiz/	prise /pʁiz/	prisons /pʁi.zɔ̃/	prisez /pʁi.ze/	prisent /pʁiz/
	imperfect	prisais /pʁi.zɛ/	prisais /pʁi.zɛ/	prisait /pʁi.zɛ/	prisions /pʁi.zjɔ̃/	prisiez /pʁi.zje/	prisaient /pʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	prisai /pʁi.ze/	prisas /pʁi.za/	prisa /pʁi.za/	prisâmes /pʁi.zam/	prisâtes /pʁi.zat/	prisèrent /pʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	priserai /pʁiz.ʁe/	priseras /pʁiz.ʁa/	prisera /pʁiz.ʁa/	priserons /pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	priserez /pʁiz.ʁe/	priseront /pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	priserais /pʁiz.ʁɛ/	priserais /pʁiz.ʁɛ/	priserait /pʁiz.ʁɛ/	priserions /pʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	priseriez /pʁi.zə.ʁje/	priseraient /pʁiz.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	prise /pʁiz/	prises /pʁiz/	prise /pʁiz/	prisions /pʁi.zjɔ̃/	prisiez /pʁi.zje/	prisent /pʁiz/
	imperfect2	prisasse /pʁi.zas/	prisasses /pʁi.zas/	prisât /pʁi.za/	prisassions /pʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	prisassiez /pʁi.za.sje/	prisassent /pʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prise /pʁiz/	—	prisons /pʁi.zɔ̃/	prisez /pʁi.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

• mépriser

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

priser m

1. indefinite plural of pris

Verb

priser

1. present tense of prise

Swedish

Noun

priser

1. indefinite plural of pris

Anagrams

• repris