mécaniser

French

Etymology

From mécanique +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ka.ni.ze/

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Verb

mécaniser

1. to mechanize

Conjugation

Conjugation of mécaniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mécaniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mécanisant /me.ka.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mécanisé /me.ka.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mécanise /me.ka.niz/	mécanises /me.ka.niz/	mécanise /me.ka.niz/	mécanisons /me.ka.ni.zɔ̃/	mécanisez /me.ka.ni.ze/	mécanisent /me.ka.niz/
	imperfect	mécanisais /me.ka.ni.zɛ/	mécanisais /me.ka.ni.zɛ/	mécanisait /me.ka.ni.zɛ/	mécanisions /me.ka.ni.zjɔ̃/	mécanisiez /me.ka.ni.zje/	mécanisaient /me.ka.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	mécanisai /me.ka.ni.ze/	mécanisas /me.ka.ni.za/	mécanisa /me.ka.ni.za/	mécanisâmes /me.ka.ni.zam/	mécanisâtes /me.ka.ni.zat/	mécanisèrent /me.ka.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	mécaniserai /me.ka.niz.ʁe/	mécaniseras /me.ka.niz.ʁa/	mécanisera /me.ka.niz.ʁa/	mécaniserons /me.ka.niz.ʁɔ̃/	mécaniserez /me.ka.niz.ʁe/	mécaniseront /me.ka.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mécaniserais /me.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	mécaniserais /me.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	mécaniserait /me.ka.niz.ʁɛ/	mécaniserions /me.ka.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	mécaniseriez /me.ka.ni.zə.ʁje/	mécaniseraient /me.ka.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	mécanise /me.ka.niz/	mécanises /me.ka.niz/	mécanise /me.ka.niz/	mécanisions /me.ka.ni.zjɔ̃/	mécanisiez /me.ka.ni.zje/	mécanisent /me.ka.niz/
	imperfect2	mécanisasse /me.ka.ni.zas/	mécanisasses /me.ka.ni.zas/	mécanisât /me.ka.ni.za/	mécanisassions /me.ka.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	mécanisassiez /me.ka.ni.za.sje/	mécanisassent /me.ka.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mécanise /me.ka.niz/	—	mécanisons /me.ka.ni.zɔ̃/	mécanisez /me.ka.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

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

Anagrams

• encirâmes

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French mécaniser.

Verb

mécaniser

1. (Jersey) to mechanize

Derived terms

• mécanisâtion (“mechanization”)