insensibiliser

French

Etymology

From insensible +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/

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Verb

insensibiliser

1. (transitive) to anesthetize
2. (transitive) to desensitize (to an allergy)

Conjugation

Conjugation of insensibiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	insensibiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	insensibilisant /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		insensibilisé /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	insensibilise /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilises /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilise /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilisons /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɔ̃/	insensibilisez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/	insensibilisent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/
	imperfect	insensibilisais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɛ/	insensibilisais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɛ/	insensibilisait /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɛ/	insensibilisions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	insensibilisiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zje/	insensibilisaient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	insensibilisai /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.ze/	insensibilisas /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.za/	insensibilisa /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.za/	insensibilisâmes /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zam/	insensibilisâtes /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zat/	insensibilisèrent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	insensibiliserai /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁe/	insensibiliseras /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁa/	insensibilisera /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁa/	insensibiliserons /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	insensibiliserez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁe/	insensibiliseront /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	insensibiliserais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	insensibiliserais /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	insensibiliserait /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	insensibiliserions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	insensibiliseriez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zə.ʁje/	insensibiliseraient /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz.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	insensibilise /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilises /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilise /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	insensibilisions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	insensibilisiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zje/	insensibilisent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/
	imperfect2	insensibilisasse /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zas/	insensibilisasses /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zas/	insensibilisât /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.za/	insensibilisassions /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	insensibilisassiez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.za.sje/	insensibilisassent /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	insensibilise /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.liz/	—	insensibilisons /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.zɔ̃/	insensibilisez /ɛ̃.sɑ̃.si.bi.li.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).

Related terms

• insensibilisation

Further reading

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