capitaliser

French

Etymology

From capital +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/

• France (Vosges)

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Verb

capitaliser

1. (transitive, typography) to capitalize
2. (transitive, finance) to capitalize

   capitaliser les intérêts ― to compound the interest

3. (intransitive) to hoard, to stockpile
4. (figuratively, transitive with sur) to capitalize on something

   Synonym: tirer profit de

Conjugation

Conjugation of capitaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	capitaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	capitalisant /ka.pi.ta.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		capitalisé /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalises /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalisons /ka.pi.ta.li.zɔ̃/	capitalisez /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/	capitalisent /ka.pi.ta.liz/
	imperfect	capitalisais /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/	capitalisais /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/	capitalisait /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/	capitalisions /ka.pi.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	capitalisiez /ka.pi.ta.li.zje/	capitalisaient /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	capitalisai /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/	capitalisas /ka.pi.ta.li.za/	capitalisa /ka.pi.ta.li.za/	capitalisâmes /ka.pi.ta.li.zam/	capitalisâtes /ka.pi.ta.li.zat/	capitalisèrent /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛʁ/
	future	capitaliserai /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁe/	capitaliseras /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁa/	capitalisera /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁa/	capitaliserons /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/	capitaliserez /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁe/	capitaliseront /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	capitaliserais /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	capitaliserais /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	capitaliserait /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	capitaliserions /ka.pi.ta.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	capitaliseriez /ka.pi.ta.li.zə.ʁje/	capitaliseraient /ka.pi.ta.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	capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalises /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/	capitalisions /ka.pi.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	capitalisiez /ka.pi.ta.li.zje/	capitalisent /ka.pi.ta.liz/
	imperfect2	capitalisasse /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/	capitalisasses /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/	capitalisât /ka.pi.ta.li.za/	capitalisassions /ka.pi.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃/	capitalisassiez /ka.pi.ta.li.za.sje/	capitalisassent /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/	—	capitalisons /ka.pi.ta.li.zɔ̃/	capitalisez /ka.pi.ta.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).

Further reading

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