éterniser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
éterniser
- to drag out, to prolong
- to immortalize
- (reflexive) to drag on
Conjugation
Conjugation of éterniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éterniser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éternisant /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éternisé /e.tɛʁ.ni.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | éternise /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternises /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternise /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternisons /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɔ̃/ |
éternisez /e.tɛʁ.ni.ze/ |
éternisent /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
| imperfect | éternisais /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɛ/ |
éternisais /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɛ/ |
éternisait /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɛ/ |
éternisions /e.tɛʁ.ni.zjɔ̃/ |
éternisiez /e.tɛʁ.ni.zje/ |
éternisaient /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éternisai /e.tɛʁ.ni.ze/ |
éternisas /e.tɛʁ.ni.za/ |
éternisa /e.tɛʁ.ni.za/ |
éternisâmes /e.tɛʁ.ni.zam/ |
éternisâtes /e.tɛʁ.ni.zat/ |
éternisèrent /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | éterniserai /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁe/ |
éterniseras /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁa/ |
éternisera /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁa/ |
éterniserons /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ |
éterniserez /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁe/ |
éterniseront /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éterniserais /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
éterniserais /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
éterniserait /e.tɛʁ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
éterniserions /e.tɛʁ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éterniseriez /e.tɛʁ.ni.zə.ʁje/ |
éterniseraient /e.tɛʁ.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 | éternise /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternises /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternise /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
éternisions /e.tɛʁ.ni.zjɔ̃/ |
éternisiez /e.tɛʁ.ni.zje/ |
éternisent /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
| imperfect2 | éternisasse /e.tɛʁ.ni.zas/ |
éternisasses /e.tɛʁ.ni.zas/ |
éternisât /e.tɛʁ.ni.za/ |
éternisassions /e.tɛʁ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/ |
éternisassiez /e.tɛʁ.ni.za.sje/ |
éternisassent /e.tɛʁ.ni.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | éternise /e.tɛʁ.niz/ |
— | éternisons /e.tɛʁ.ni.zɔ̃/ |
éternisez /e.tɛʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “éterniser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.