culpabiliser

French

Etymology

From Late Latin culpabilis (whence coupable) + -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyl.pa.bi.li.ze/

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Verb

culpabiliser

1. (intransitive) to feel guilty
2. (transitive) to guilt trip, to make (someone) feel guilty

Conjugation

Conjugation of culpabiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	culpabiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	culpabilisant /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		culpabilisé /kyl.pa.bi.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	culpabilise /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilises /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilise /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilisons /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɔ̃/	culpabilisez /kyl.pa.bi.li.ze/	culpabilisent /kyl.pa.bi.liz/
	imperfect	culpabilisais /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɛ/	culpabilisais /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɛ/	culpabilisait /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɛ/	culpabilisions /kyl.pa.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	culpabilisiez /kyl.pa.bi.li.zje/	culpabilisaient /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	culpabilisai /kyl.pa.bi.li.ze/	culpabilisas /kyl.pa.bi.li.za/	culpabilisa /kyl.pa.bi.li.za/	culpabilisâmes /kyl.pa.bi.li.zam/	culpabilisâtes /kyl.pa.bi.li.zat/	culpabilisèrent /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	culpabiliserai /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁe/	culpabiliseras /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁa/	culpabilisera /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁa/	culpabiliserons /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	culpabiliserez /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁe/	culpabiliseront /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	culpabiliserais /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	culpabiliserais /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	culpabiliserait /kyl.pa.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	culpabiliserions /kyl.pa.bi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	culpabiliseriez /kyl.pa.bi.li.zə.ʁje/	culpabiliseraient /kyl.pa.bi.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	culpabilise /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilises /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilise /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	culpabilisions /kyl.pa.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	culpabilisiez /kyl.pa.bi.li.zje/	culpabilisent /kyl.pa.bi.liz/
	imperfect2	culpabilisasse /kyl.pa.bi.li.zas/	culpabilisasses /kyl.pa.bi.li.zas/	culpabilisât /kyl.pa.bi.li.za/	culpabilisassions /kyl.pa.bi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	culpabilisassiez /kyl.pa.bi.li.za.sje/	culpabilisassent /kyl.pa.bi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	culpabilise /kyl.pa.bi.liz/	—	culpabilisons /kyl.pa.bi.li.zɔ̃/	culpabilisez /kyl.pa.bi.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

• culpabilité

Further reading

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