satelliser

French

Etymology

From satellite +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tɛ.li.ze/ ~ /sa.te.li.ze/

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Verb

satelliser

1. (transitive) to put into orbit (as a satellite)

   Laïka, la première chienne satellisée par les Soviétiques

   Laika, the first dog put into orbit by the Soviets

2. (transitive) to turn (a state, organization, etc.) into a satellite; bring into its orbit.

   les grands États qui cherchent à satelliser les républiques et les principautés voisines

   the great powers seeking to bring neighbouring republics and principalities into their orbit

3. (transitive, Canada) to tune in to a radio station via satellite radio.

Conjugation

Conjugation of satelliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	satelliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	satellisant /sa.tɛ.li.zɑ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		satellisé /sa.tɛ.li.ze/ or /sa.te.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	satellise /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellises /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellise /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellisons /sa.tɛ.li.zɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zɔ̃/	satellisez /sa.tɛ.li.ze/ or /sa.te.li.ze/	satellisent /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/
	imperfect	satellisais /sa.tɛ.li.zɛ/ or /sa.te.li.zɛ/	satellisais /sa.tɛ.li.zɛ/ or /sa.te.li.zɛ/	satellisait /sa.tɛ.li.zɛ/ or /sa.te.li.zɛ/	satellisions /sa.tɛ.li.zjɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zjɔ̃/	satellisiez /sa.tɛ.li.zje/ or /sa.te.li.zje/	satellisaient /sa.tɛ.li.zɛ/ or /sa.te.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	satellisai /sa.tɛ.li.ze/ or /sa.te.li.ze/	satellisas /sa.tɛ.li.za/ or /sa.te.li.za/	satellisa /sa.tɛ.li.za/ or /sa.te.li.za/	satellisâmes /sa.tɛ.li.zam/ or /sa.te.li.zam/	satellisâtes /sa.tɛ.li.zat/ or /sa.te.li.zat/	satellisèrent /sa.tɛ.li.zɛʁ/ or /sa.te.li.zɛʁ/
	future	satelliserai /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁe/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁe/	satelliseras /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁa/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁa/	satellisera /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁa/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁa/	satelliserons /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɔ̃/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁɔ̃/	satelliserez /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁe/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁe/	satelliseront /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɔ̃/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	satelliserais /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɛ/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁɛ/	satelliserais /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɛ/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁɛ/	satelliserait /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɛ/ or /sa.te.liz.ʁɛ/	satelliserions /sa.tɛ.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	satelliseriez /sa.tɛ.li.zə.ʁje/ or /sa.te.li.zə.ʁje/	satelliseraient /sa.tɛ.liz.ʁɛ/ or /sa.te.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	satellise /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellises /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellise /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	satellisions /sa.tɛ.li.zjɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zjɔ̃/	satellisiez /sa.tɛ.li.zje/ or /sa.te.li.zje/	satellisent /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/
	imperfect2	satellisasse /sa.tɛ.li.zas/ or /sa.te.li.zas/	satellisasses /sa.tɛ.li.zas/ or /sa.te.li.zas/	satellisât /sa.tɛ.li.za/ or /sa.te.li.za/	satellisassions /sa.tɛ.li.za.sjɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.za.sjɔ̃/	satellisassiez /sa.tɛ.li.za.sje/ or /sa.te.li.za.sje/	satellisassent /sa.tɛ.li.zas/ or /sa.te.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	satellise /sa.tɛ.liz/ or /sa.te.liz/	—	satellisons /sa.tɛ.li.zɔ̃/ or /sa.te.li.zɔ̃/	satellisez /sa.tɛ.li.ze/ or /sa.te.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

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