matérialiser

See also: materialiser

French

Etymology

From matériel +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.te.ʁja.li.ze/

• Audio:

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Verb

matérialiser

1. (transitive) to realize, to make happen, to materialize (to cause to take physical form)
2. (reflexive) to materialize (to take physical form)

Conjugation

Conjugation of matérialiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	matérialiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	matérialisant /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		matérialisé /ma.te.ʁja.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	matérialise /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialises /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialise /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialisons /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɔ̃/	matérialisez /ma.te.ʁja.li.ze/	matérialisent /ma.te.ʁja.liz/
	imperfect	matérialisais /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɛ/	matérialisais /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɛ/	matérialisait /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɛ/	matérialisions /ma.te.ʁja.li.zjɔ̃/	matérialisiez /ma.te.ʁja.li.zje/	matérialisaient /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	matérialisai /ma.te.ʁja.li.ze/	matérialisas /ma.te.ʁja.li.za/	matérialisa /ma.te.ʁja.li.za/	matérialisâmes /ma.te.ʁja.li.zam/	matérialisâtes /ma.te.ʁja.li.zat/	matérialisèrent /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɛʁ/
	future	matérialiserai /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁe/	matérialiseras /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁa/	matérialisera /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁa/	matérialiserons /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁɔ̃/	matérialiserez /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁe/	matérialiseront /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	matérialiserais /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁɛ/	matérialiserais /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁɛ/	matérialiserait /ma.te.ʁja.liz.ʁɛ/	matérialiserions /ma.te.ʁja.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	matérialiseriez /ma.te.ʁja.li.zə.ʁje/	matérialiseraient /ma.te.ʁja.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	matérialise /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialises /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialise /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	matérialisions /ma.te.ʁja.li.zjɔ̃/	matérialisiez /ma.te.ʁja.li.zje/	matérialisent /ma.te.ʁja.liz/
	imperfect2	matérialisasse /ma.te.ʁja.li.zas/	matérialisasses /ma.te.ʁja.li.zas/	matérialisât /ma.te.ʁja.li.za/	matérialisassions /ma.te.ʁja.li.za.sjɔ̃/	matérialisassiez /ma.te.ʁja.li.za.sje/	matérialisassent /ma.te.ʁja.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	matérialise /ma.te.ʁja.liz/	—	matérialisons /ma.te.ʁja.li.zɔ̃/	matérialisez /ma.te.ʁja.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).

Further reading

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