cristalliser

French

Etymology

cristal +‎ -iser

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁis.ta.li.ze/

Verb

cristalliser

1. to crystallize

Conjugation

Conjugation of cristalliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cristalliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cristallisant /kʁis.ta.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cristallisé /kʁis.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	cristallise /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallises /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallise /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallisons /kʁis.ta.li.zɔ̃/	cristallisez /kʁis.ta.li.ze/	cristallisent /kʁis.ta.liz/
	imperfect	cristallisais /kʁis.ta.li.zɛ/	cristallisais /kʁis.ta.li.zɛ/	cristallisait /kʁis.ta.li.zɛ/	cristallisions /kʁis.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	cristallisiez /kʁis.ta.li.zje/	cristallisaient /kʁis.ta.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	cristallisai /kʁis.ta.li.ze/	cristallisas /kʁis.ta.li.za/	cristallisa /kʁis.ta.li.za/	cristallisâmes /kʁis.ta.li.zam/	cristallisâtes /kʁis.ta.li.zat/	cristallisèrent /kʁis.ta.li.zɛʁ/
	future	cristalliserai /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁe/	cristalliseras /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁa/	cristallisera /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁa/	cristalliserons /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/	cristalliserez /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁe/	cristalliseront /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cristalliserais /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	cristalliserais /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	cristalliserait /kʁis.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	cristalliserions /kʁis.ta.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	cristalliseriez /kʁis.ta.li.zə.ʁje/	cristalliseraient /kʁis.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	cristallise /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallises /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallise /kʁis.ta.liz/	cristallisions /kʁis.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	cristallisiez /kʁis.ta.li.zje/	cristallisent /kʁis.ta.liz/
	imperfect2	cristallisasse /kʁis.ta.li.zas/	cristallisasses /kʁis.ta.li.zas/	cristallisât /kʁis.ta.li.za/	cristallisassions /kʁis.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃/	cristallisassiez /kʁis.ta.li.za.sje/	cristallisassent /kʁis.ta.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cristallise /kʁis.ta.liz/	—	cristallisons /kʁis.ta.li.zɔ̃/	cristallisez /kʁis.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).

Derived terms

• cristallisable
• cristallisoir

Further reading

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