urbaniser

English

Noun

urbaniser (plural urbanisers)

1. Alternative form of urbanizer

French

Etymology

From urbain (“urban”) +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yʁ.ba.ni.ze/

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Verb

urbaniser

1. (transitive) to urbanize

Conjugation

Conjugation of urbaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	urbaniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	urbanisant /yʁ.ba.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		urbanisé /yʁ.ba.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	urbanise /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanises /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanise /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanisons /yʁ.ba.ni.zɔ̃/	urbanisez /yʁ.ba.ni.ze/	urbanisent /yʁ.ba.niz/
	imperfect	urbanisais /yʁ.ba.ni.zɛ/	urbanisais /yʁ.ba.ni.zɛ/	urbanisait /yʁ.ba.ni.zɛ/	urbanisions /yʁ.ba.ni.zjɔ̃/	urbanisiez /yʁ.ba.ni.zje/	urbanisaient /yʁ.ba.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	urbanisai /yʁ.ba.ni.ze/	urbanisas /yʁ.ba.ni.za/	urbanisa /yʁ.ba.ni.za/	urbanisâmes /yʁ.ba.ni.zam/	urbanisâtes /yʁ.ba.ni.zat/	urbanisèrent /yʁ.ba.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	urbaniserai /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁe/	urbaniseras /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁa/	urbanisera /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁa/	urbaniserons /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁɔ̃/	urbaniserez /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁe/	urbaniseront /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	urbaniserais /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁɛ/	urbaniserais /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁɛ/	urbaniserait /yʁ.ba.niz.ʁɛ/	urbaniserions /yʁ.ba.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	urbaniseriez /yʁ.ba.ni.zə.ʁje/	urbaniseraient /yʁ.ba.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	urbanise /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanises /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanise /yʁ.ba.niz/	urbanisions /yʁ.ba.ni.zjɔ̃/	urbanisiez /yʁ.ba.ni.zje/	urbanisent /yʁ.ba.niz/
	imperfect2	urbanisasse /yʁ.ba.ni.zas/	urbanisasses /yʁ.ba.ni.zas/	urbanisât /yʁ.ba.ni.za/	urbanisassions /yʁ.ba.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	urbanisassiez /yʁ.ba.ni.za.sje/	urbanisassent /yʁ.ba.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	urbanise /yʁ.ba.niz/	—	urbanisons /yʁ.ba.ni.zɔ̃/	urbanisez /yʁ.ba.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

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