organiser

English

Etymology

From organise +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

organiser (plural organisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of organizer.
   • 2024 October 16, David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson, “Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” […] In multiple conversations, HDF’s organisers suggested their interests were also political.

Derived terms

• co-organiser
• desk organiser
• nappy organiser

French

Etymology

From Middle French organiser, borrowed from Medieval Latin organizāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze/

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• Homophones: organisai, organisé, organisés, organisée, organisées, organisez

Verb

organiser

1. to organise; to plan an event
2. to organise; to put something in a specific order

Conjugation

Conjugation of organiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	organiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	organisant /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		organisé /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	organise /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organises /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organise /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organisons /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɔ̃/	organisez /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze/	organisent /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/
	imperfect	organisais /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɛ/	organisais /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɛ/	organisait /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɛ/	organisions /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zjɔ̃/	organisiez /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zje/	organisaient /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	organisai /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze/	organisas /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.za/	organisa /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.za/	organisâmes /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zam/	organisâtes /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zat/	organisèrent /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	organiserai /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁe/	organiseras /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁa/	organisera /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁa/	organiserons /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁɔ̃/	organiserez /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁe/	organiseront /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	organiserais /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁɛ/	organiserais /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁɛ/	organiserait /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz.ʁɛ/	organiserions /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	organiseriez /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zə.ʁje/	organiseraient /ɔʁ.ɡa.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	organise /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organises /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organise /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	organisions /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zjɔ̃/	organisiez /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zje/	organisent /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/
	imperfect2	organisasse /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zas/	organisasses /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zas/	organisât /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.za/	organisassions /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	organisassiez /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.za.sje/	organisassent /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	organise /ɔʁ.ɡa.niz/	—	organisons /ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.zɔ̃/	organisez /ɔʁ.ɡa.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).

Antonyms

• désorganiser

Derived terms

• organisation

Descendants

• → Esperanto: organizi
  • Ido: organizar
• → German: organisieren
  • → Estonian: organiseerima
  • → Hungarian: organizál
• → Greek: οργανώνω (organóno) (learned)
• → Hunsrik: organiseere
• → Lithuanian: organizúoti
• → Norwegian Bokmål: organisere
• → Polish: organizować
• → Portuguese: organizar
• → Romanian: organiza
• → Spanish: organizar
• → Turkish: organize (via past participle)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• garerions, ignoreras, ragerions, réagirons, rognerais, rongerais

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

organiser

1. imperative of organisere