immobiliser

English

Alternative forms

• immobilizer

Etymology

immobilise +‎ -er

Noun

immobiliser (plural immobilisers)

1. Something or someone that immobilises.
   1. (medicine) A splint.
   2. An electronic security device fitted to an automobile that prevents the engine from running unless the correct key (or other token) is present.

Translations

splint — see splint

security device

• Finnish: ajonestolaite (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: indításgátló, immobiliser (hu)
• Slovak: imobilizér

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French

Verb

immobiliser

1. to immobilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of immobiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	immobiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	immobilisant /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		immobilisé /i.mɔ.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	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilises /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilisons /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɔ̃/	immobilisez /i.mɔ.bi.li.ze/	immobilisent /i.mɔ.bi.liz/
	imperfect	immobilisais /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisais /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisait /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	immobilisiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zje/	immobilisaient /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	immobilisai /i.mɔ.bi.li.ze/	immobilisas /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisa /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisâmes /i.mɔ.bi.li.zam/	immobilisâtes /i.mɔ.bi.li.zat/	immobilisèrent /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	immobiliserai /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁe/	immobiliseras /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁa/	immobilisera /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁa/	immobiliserons /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	immobiliserez /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁe/	immobiliseront /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	immobiliserais /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserais /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserait /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	immobiliseriez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zə.ʁje/	immobiliseraient /i.mɔ.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	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilises /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilisions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	immobilisiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zje/	immobilisent /i.mɔ.bi.liz/
	imperfect2	immobilisasse /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/	immobilisasses /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/	immobilisât /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisassions /i.mɔ.bi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	immobilisassiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.za.sje/	immobilisassent /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	—	immobilisons /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɔ̃/	immobilisez /i.mɔ.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• immobiliers