coloniser

English

Etymology

From colonise +‎ -er.

Noun

coloniser (plural colonisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
   • 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:

     Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.

Anagrams

• oroclines

French

Etymology

From colonie +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/

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Verb

coloniser

1. to colonise

Conjugation

Conjugation of coloniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coloniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	colonisant /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		colonisé /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/	colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/
	imperfect	colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/	colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/	colonisait /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/	colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/	colonisaient /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	colonisai /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/	colonisas /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/	colonisa /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/	colonisâmes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zam/	colonisâtes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zat/	colonisèrent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	coloniserai /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/	coloniseras /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/	colonisera /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/	coloniserons /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/	coloniserez /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/	coloniseront /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	coloniserait /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	coloniserions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	coloniseriez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/	coloniseraient /kɔ.lɔ.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	colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/	colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/
	imperfect2	colonisasse /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/	colonisasses /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/	colonisât /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/	colonisassions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	colonisassiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sje/	colonisassent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/	—	colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.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

• colonisateur

Further reading

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