japoniser

French

Etymology

Japon +‎ -iser

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (v) /ʒa.pɔ.ni.ze/

Verb

japoniser

1. nipponize (to make or become more Japanese)

Conjugation

Conjugation of japoniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	japoniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	japonisant /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		japonisé /ʒa.pɔ.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	japonise /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonises /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonise /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonisons /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	japonisez /ʒa.pɔ.ni.ze/	japonisent /ʒa.pɔ.niz/
	imperfect	japonisais /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɛ/	japonisais /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɛ/	japonisait /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɛ/	japonisions /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	japonisiez /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zje/	japonisaient /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	japonisai /ʒa.pɔ.ni.ze/	japonisas /ʒa.pɔ.ni.za/	japonisa /ʒa.pɔ.ni.za/	japonisâmes /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zam/	japonisâtes /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zat/	japonisèrent /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	japoniserai /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁe/	japoniseras /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁa/	japonisera /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁa/	japoniserons /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/	japoniserez /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁe/	japoniseront /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	japoniserais /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	japoniserais /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	japoniserait /ʒa.pɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	japoniserions /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	japoniseriez /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/	japoniseraient /ʒa.pɔ.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	japonise /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonises /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonise /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	japonisions /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	japonisiez /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zje/	japonisent /ʒa.pɔ.niz/
	imperfect2	japonisasse /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zas/	japonisasses /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zas/	japonisât /ʒa.pɔ.ni.za/	japonisassions /ʒa.pɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	japonisassiez /ʒa.pɔ.ni.za.sje/	japonisassent /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	japonise /ʒa.pɔ.niz/	—	japonisons /ʒa.pɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	japonisez /ʒa.pɔ.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).

Further reading

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