merceriser

English

Noun

merceriser (plural mercerisers)

1. Alternative spelling of mercerizer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

merceriser

1. to mercerise

Conjugation

Conjugation of merceriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	merceriser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mercerisant /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mercerisé /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mercerise /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerises /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerise /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerisons /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɔ̃/	mercerisez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.ze/	mercerisent /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/
	imperfect	mercerisais /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɛ/	mercerisais /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɛ/	mercerisait /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɛ/	mercerisions /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	mercerisiez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zje/	mercerisaient /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	mercerisai /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.ze/	mercerisas /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.za/	mercerisa /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.za/	mercerisâmes /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zam/	mercerisâtes /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zat/	mercerisèrent /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	merceriserai /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁe/	merceriseras /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁa/	mercerisera /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁa/	merceriserons /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	merceriserez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁe/	merceriseront /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	merceriserais /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	merceriserais /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	merceriserait /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	merceriserions /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	merceriseriez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	merceriseraient /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz.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	mercerise /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerises /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerise /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	mercerisions /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	mercerisiez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zje/	mercerisent /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	mercerisasse /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zas/	mercerisasses /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zas/	mercerisât /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.za/	mercerisassions /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	mercerisassiez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.za.sje/	mercerisassent /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mercerise /mɛʁ.sə.ʁiz/	—	mercerisons /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.zɔ̃/	mercerisez /mɛʁ.sə.ʁi.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

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