tétaniser

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

tétaniser

1. to tetanize
2. (usually in the past participle) to petrify, to scare stiff

Conjugation

Conjugation of tétaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tétaniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tétanisant /te.ta.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tétanisé /te.ta.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tétanise /te.ta.niz/	tétanises /te.ta.niz/	tétanise /te.ta.niz/	tétanisons /te.ta.ni.zɔ̃/	tétanisez /te.ta.ni.ze/	tétanisent /te.ta.niz/
	imperfect	tétanisais /te.ta.ni.zɛ/	tétanisais /te.ta.ni.zɛ/	tétanisait /te.ta.ni.zɛ/	tétanisions /te.ta.ni.zjɔ̃/	tétanisiez /te.ta.ni.zje/	tétanisaient /te.ta.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	tétanisai /te.ta.ni.ze/	tétanisas /te.ta.ni.za/	tétanisa /te.ta.ni.za/	tétanisâmes /te.ta.ni.zam/	tétanisâtes /te.ta.ni.zat/	tétanisèrent /te.ta.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	tétaniserai /te.ta.niz.ʁe/	tétaniseras /te.ta.niz.ʁa/	tétanisera /te.ta.niz.ʁa/	tétaniserons /te.ta.niz.ʁɔ̃/	tétaniserez /te.ta.niz.ʁe/	tétaniseront /te.ta.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tétaniserais /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/	tétaniserais /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/	tétaniserait /te.ta.niz.ʁɛ/	tétaniserions /te.ta.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	tétaniseriez /te.ta.ni.zə.ʁje/	tétaniseraient /te.ta.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	tétanise /te.ta.niz/	tétanises /te.ta.niz/	tétanise /te.ta.niz/	tétanisions /te.ta.ni.zjɔ̃/	tétanisiez /te.ta.ni.zje/	tétanisent /te.ta.niz/
	imperfect2	tétanisasse /te.ta.ni.zas/	tétanisasses /te.ta.ni.zas/	tétanisât /te.ta.ni.za/	tétanisassions /te.ta.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	tétanisassiez /te.ta.ni.za.sje/	tétanisassent /te.ta.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tétanise /te.ta.niz/	—	tétanisons /te.ta.ni.zɔ̃/	tétanisez /te.ta.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

• tétanisation

Related terms

• tétanie
• tétanique

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• inertâtes, rainettes, restaient, retentais, stéraient, teinteras, tenterais, tersaient