rivaliser

French

Etymology

From rival +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.va.li.ze/

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Verb

rivaliser

1. (intransitive) to compete

Conjugation

Conjugation of rivaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rivaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rivalisant /ʁi.va.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rivalisé /ʁi.va.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rivalise /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalises /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalise /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalisons /ʁi.va.li.zɔ̃/	rivalisez /ʁi.va.li.ze/	rivalisent /ʁi.va.liz/
	imperfect	rivalisais /ʁi.va.li.zɛ/	rivalisais /ʁi.va.li.zɛ/	rivalisait /ʁi.va.li.zɛ/	rivalisions /ʁi.va.li.zjɔ̃/	rivalisiez /ʁi.va.li.zje/	rivalisaient /ʁi.va.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	rivalisai /ʁi.va.li.ze/	rivalisas /ʁi.va.li.za/	rivalisa /ʁi.va.li.za/	rivalisâmes /ʁi.va.li.zam/	rivalisâtes /ʁi.va.li.zat/	rivalisèrent /ʁi.va.li.zɛʁ/
	future	rivaliserai /ʁi.va.liz.ʁe/	rivaliseras /ʁi.va.liz.ʁa/	rivalisera /ʁi.va.liz.ʁa/	rivaliserons /ʁi.va.liz.ʁɔ̃/	rivaliserez /ʁi.va.liz.ʁe/	rivaliseront /ʁi.va.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rivaliserais /ʁi.va.liz.ʁɛ/	rivaliserais /ʁi.va.liz.ʁɛ/	rivaliserait /ʁi.va.liz.ʁɛ/	rivaliserions /ʁi.va.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	rivaliseriez /ʁi.va.li.zə.ʁje/	rivaliseraient /ʁi.va.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	rivalise /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalises /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalise /ʁi.va.liz/	rivalisions /ʁi.va.li.zjɔ̃/	rivalisiez /ʁi.va.li.zje/	rivalisent /ʁi.va.liz/
	imperfect2	rivalisasse /ʁi.va.li.zas/	rivalisasses /ʁi.va.li.zas/	rivalisât /ʁi.va.li.za/	rivalisassions /ʁi.va.li.za.sjɔ̃/	rivalisassiez /ʁi.va.li.za.sje/	rivalisassent /ʁi.va.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rivalise /ʁi.va.liz/	—	rivalisons /ʁi.va.li.zɔ̃/	rivalisez /ʁi.va.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).

Related terms

• rival
• rivalité

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• livrerais