infantiliser

French

Etymology

From infantile +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.ze/

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Verb

infantiliser

1. (transitive) to infantilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of infantiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	infantiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	infantilisant /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		infantilisé /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	infantilise /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilises /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilise /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilisons /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɔ̃/	infantilisez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.ze/	infantilisent /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/
	imperfect	infantilisais /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɛ/	infantilisais /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɛ/	infantilisait /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɛ/	infantilisions /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	infantilisiez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zje/	infantilisaient /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	infantilisai /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.ze/	infantilisas /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.za/	infantilisa /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.za/	infantilisâmes /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zam/	infantilisâtes /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zat/	infantilisèrent /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɛʁ/
	future	infantiliserai /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁe/	infantiliseras /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁa/	infantilisera /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁa/	infantiliserons /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/	infantiliserez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁe/	infantiliseront /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	infantiliserais /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	infantiliserais /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	infantiliserait /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	infantiliserions /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	infantiliseriez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zə.ʁje/	infantiliseraient /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.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	infantilise /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilises /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilise /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	infantilisions /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	infantilisiez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zje/	infantilisent /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/
	imperfect2	infantilisasse /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zas/	infantilisasses /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zas/	infantilisât /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.za/	infantilisassions /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/	infantilisassiez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.za.sje/	infantilisassent /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	infantilise /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.liz/	—	infantilisons /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.li.zɔ̃/	infantilisez /ɛ̃.fɑ̃.ti.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

• infantilisant
• infantilisation

Further reading

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