naturaliser

English

Noun

naturaliser (plural naturalisers)

1. Alternative spelling of naturalizer

French

Etymology

From naturel +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ty.ʁa.li.ze/

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Verb

naturaliser

1. (transitive) to naturalize (all senses)
2. (transitive) to stuff (a dead animal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of naturaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	naturaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	naturalisant /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		naturalisé /na.ty.ʁa.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	naturalise /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalises /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalise /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalisons /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɔ̃/	naturalisez /na.ty.ʁa.li.ze/	naturalisent /na.ty.ʁa.liz/
	imperfect	naturalisais /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɛ/	naturalisais /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɛ/	naturalisait /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɛ/	naturalisions /na.ty.ʁa.li.zjɔ̃/	naturalisiez /na.ty.ʁa.li.zje/	naturalisaient /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	naturalisai /na.ty.ʁa.li.ze/	naturalisas /na.ty.ʁa.li.za/	naturalisa /na.ty.ʁa.li.za/	naturalisâmes /na.ty.ʁa.li.zam/	naturalisâtes /na.ty.ʁa.li.zat/	naturalisèrent /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɛʁ/
	future	naturaliserai /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁe/	naturaliseras /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁa/	naturalisera /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁa/	naturaliserons /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁɔ̃/	naturaliserez /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁe/	naturaliseront /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	naturaliserais /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁɛ/	naturaliserais /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁɛ/	naturaliserait /na.ty.ʁa.liz.ʁɛ/	naturaliserions /na.ty.ʁa.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	naturaliseriez /na.ty.ʁa.li.zə.ʁje/	naturaliseraient /na.ty.ʁa.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	naturalise /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalises /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalise /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	naturalisions /na.ty.ʁa.li.zjɔ̃/	naturalisiez /na.ty.ʁa.li.zje/	naturalisent /na.ty.ʁa.liz/
	imperfect2	naturalisasse /na.ty.ʁa.li.zas/	naturalisasses /na.ty.ʁa.li.zas/	naturalisât /na.ty.ʁa.li.za/	naturalisassions /na.ty.ʁa.li.za.sjɔ̃/	naturalisassiez /na.ty.ʁa.li.za.sje/	naturalisassent /na.ty.ʁa.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	naturalise /na.ty.ʁa.liz/	—	naturalisons /na.ty.ʁa.li.zɔ̃/	naturalisez /na.ty.ʁa.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

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