cannibaliser

French

Etymology

cannibale +‎ -iser

Pronunciation

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Verb

cannibaliser

1. to cannibalise

Conjugation

Conjugation of cannibaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cannibaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cannibalisant /ka.ni.ba.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cannibalisé /ka.ni.ba.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cannibalise /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalises /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalise /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalisons /ka.ni.ba.li.zɔ̃/	cannibalisez /ka.ni.ba.li.ze/	cannibalisent /ka.ni.ba.liz/
	imperfect	cannibalisais /ka.ni.ba.li.zɛ/	cannibalisais /ka.ni.ba.li.zɛ/	cannibalisait /ka.ni.ba.li.zɛ/	cannibalisions /ka.ni.ba.li.zjɔ̃/	cannibalisiez /ka.ni.ba.li.zje/	cannibalisaient /ka.ni.ba.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	cannibalisai /ka.ni.ba.li.ze/	cannibalisas /ka.ni.ba.li.za/	cannibalisa /ka.ni.ba.li.za/	cannibalisâmes /ka.ni.ba.li.zam/	cannibalisâtes /ka.ni.ba.li.zat/	cannibalisèrent /ka.ni.ba.li.zɛʁ/
	future	cannibaliserai /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁe/	cannibaliseras /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁa/	cannibalisera /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁa/	cannibaliserons /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁɔ̃/	cannibaliserez /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁe/	cannibaliseront /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cannibaliserais /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁɛ/	cannibaliserais /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁɛ/	cannibaliserait /ka.ni.ba.liz.ʁɛ/	cannibaliserions /ka.ni.ba.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	cannibaliseriez /ka.ni.ba.li.zə.ʁje/	cannibaliseraient /ka.ni.ba.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	cannibalise /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalises /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalise /ka.ni.ba.liz/	cannibalisions /ka.ni.ba.li.zjɔ̃/	cannibalisiez /ka.ni.ba.li.zje/	cannibalisent /ka.ni.ba.liz/
	imperfect2	cannibalisasse /ka.ni.ba.li.zas/	cannibalisasses /ka.ni.ba.li.zas/	cannibalisât /ka.ni.ba.li.za/	cannibalisassions /ka.ni.ba.li.za.sjɔ̃/	cannibalisassiez /ka.ni.ba.li.za.sje/	cannibalisassent /ka.ni.ba.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cannibalise /ka.ni.ba.liz/	—	cannibalisons /ka.ni.ba.li.zɔ̃/	cannibalisez /ka.ni.ba.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

• cannibalisation
• cannibalisme
• cannibalesque