pérenniser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin perennis +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.ʁɛ.ni.ze/, /pe.ʁe.ni.ze/

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Verb

pérenniser

1. (transitive) to perpetuate, sustain

Conjugation

Conjugation of pérenniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pérenniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pérennisant /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɑ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pérennisé /pe.ʁɛ.ni.ze/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pérennise /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennises /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennise /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennisons /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɔ̃/	pérennisez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.ze/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.ze/	pérennisent /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/
	imperfect	pérennisais /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɛ/	pérennisais /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɛ/	pérennisait /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɛ/	pérennisions /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zjɔ̃/	pérennisiez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zje/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zje/	pérennisaient /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	pérennisai /pe.ʁɛ.ni.ze/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.ze/	pérennisas /pe.ʁɛ.ni.za/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.za/	pérennisa /pe.ʁɛ.ni.za/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.za/	pérennisâmes /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zam/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zam/	pérennisâtes /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zat/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zat/	pérennisèrent /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɛʁ/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	pérenniserai /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁe/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁe/	pérenniseras /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁa/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁa/	pérennisera /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁa/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁa/	pérenniserons /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁɔ̃/	pérenniserez /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁe/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁe/	pérenniseront /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pérenniserais /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁɛ/	pérenniserais /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁɛ/	pérenniserait /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.niz.ʁɛ/	pérenniserions /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	pérenniseriez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zə.ʁje/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zə.ʁje/	pérenniseraient /pe.ʁɛ.niz.ʁɛ/ or /pe.ʁe.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	pérennise /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennises /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennise /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	pérennisions /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zjɔ̃/	pérennisiez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zje/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zje/	pérennisent /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/
	imperfect2	pérennisasse /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zas/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zas/	pérennisasses /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zas/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zas/	pérennisât /pe.ʁɛ.ni.za/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.za/	pérennisassions /pe.ʁɛ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	pérennisassiez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.za.sje/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.za.sje/	pérennisassent /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zas/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pérennise /pe.ʁɛ.niz/ or /pe.ʁe.niz/	—	pérennisons /pe.ʁɛ.ni.zɔ̃/ or /pe.ʁe.ni.zɔ̃/	pérennisez /pe.ʁɛ.ni.ze/ or /pe.ʁe.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).

Derived terms

• pérennisation

Further reading

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