apprivoiser

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *apprīvātiāre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin prīvātus (“deprived; freed, released”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive; I free, release”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/

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Verb

apprivoiser

1. to tame
   • 1875, Georges Bizet, Carment, Act I:

     L’amour est un oiseau rebelle / Que nul ne peut apprivoiser, / […]

     Love is a rebellious bird / That none can tame, / […]

   • 1943, Antoine de Saint-Expupéry, Le Petit Prince

     Viens jouer avec moi, lui proposa le petit prince. […] Je ne puis pas jouer avec toi, dit le renard. Je ne suis pas apprivoisé.

     "Come play with me," proposed the little prince [to him]. […] "I cannot play with you," said the fox. "I am not tamed."

Conjugation

Conjugation of apprivoiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	apprivoiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	apprivoisant /a.pʁi.vwa.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		apprivoisé /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoises /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoisons /a.pʁi.vwa.zɔ̃/	apprivoisez /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/	apprivoisent /a.pʁi.vwaz/
	imperfect	apprivoisais /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/	apprivoisais /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/	apprivoisait /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/	apprivoisions /a.pʁi.vwa.zjɔ̃/	apprivoisiez /a.pʁi.vwa.zje/	apprivoisaient /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛ/
	past historic2	apprivoisai /a.pʁi.vwa.ze/	apprivoisas /a.pʁi.vwa.za/	apprivoisa /a.pʁi.vwa.za/	apprivoisâmes /a.pʁi.vwa.zam/	apprivoisâtes /a.pʁi.vwa.zat/	apprivoisèrent /a.pʁi.vwa.zɛʁ/
	future	apprivoiserai /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁe/	apprivoiseras /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁa/	apprivoisera /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁa/	apprivoiserons /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɔ̃/	apprivoiserez /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁe/	apprivoiseront /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	apprivoiserais /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/	apprivoiserais /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/	apprivoiserait /a.pʁi.vwaz.ʁɛ/	apprivoiserions /a.pʁi.vwa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	apprivoiseriez /a.pʁi.vwa.zə.ʁje/	apprivoiseraient /a.pʁi.vwaz.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	apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoises /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/	apprivoisions /a.pʁi.vwa.zjɔ̃/	apprivoisiez /a.pʁi.vwa.zje/	apprivoisent /a.pʁi.vwaz/
	imperfect2	apprivoisasse /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/	apprivoisasses /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/	apprivoisât /a.pʁi.vwa.za/	apprivoisassions /a.pʁi.vwa.za.sjɔ̃/	apprivoisassiez /a.pʁi.vwa.za.sje/	apprivoisassent /a.pʁi.vwa.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	apprivoise /a.pʁi.vwaz/	—	apprivoisons /a.pʁi.vwa.zɔ̃/	apprivoisez /a.pʁi.vwa.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).

Synonyms

• dompter, dresser

Derived terms

• apprivoisable
• apprivoiseur

Further reading

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