polariser

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English polarise

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English polariser

From polarise + -er.

Noun

polariser (plural polarisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polarizer.

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

polariser

1. to polarize

Conjugation

Conjugation of polariser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	polariser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	polarisant /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		polarisé /pɔ.la.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	polarise /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarises /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarise /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarisons /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɔ̃/	polarisez /pɔ.la.ʁi.ze/	polarisent /pɔ.la.ʁiz/
	imperfect	polarisais /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɛ/	polarisais /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɛ/	polarisait /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɛ/	polarisions /pɔ.la.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	polarisiez /pɔ.la.ʁi.zje/	polarisaient /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	polarisai /pɔ.la.ʁi.ze/	polarisas /pɔ.la.ʁi.za/	polarisa /pɔ.la.ʁi.za/	polarisâmes /pɔ.la.ʁi.zam/	polarisâtes /pɔ.la.ʁi.zat/	polarisèrent /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	polariserai /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁe/	polariseras /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁa/	polarisera /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁa/	polariserons /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	polariserez /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁe/	polariseront /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	polariserais /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	polariserais /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	polariserait /pɔ.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	polariserions /pɔ.la.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	polariseriez /pɔ.la.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	polariseraient /pɔ.la.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	polarise /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarises /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarise /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	polarisions /pɔ.la.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	polarisiez /pɔ.la.ʁi.zje/	polarisent /pɔ.la.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	polarisasse /pɔ.la.ʁi.zas/	polarisasses /pɔ.la.ʁi.zas/	polarisât /pɔ.la.ʁi.za/	polarisassions /pɔ.la.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	polarisassiez /pɔ.la.ʁi.za.sje/	polarisassent /pɔ.la.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	polarise /pɔ.la.ʁiz/	—	polarisons /pɔ.la.ʁi.zɔ̃/	polarisez /pɔ.la.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).

Derived terms

• polariseur

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parlerois

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

polariser

1. imperative of polarisere