solenniser

French

Alternative forms

• solemniser (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sōlemnizāre, from Latin sollemnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.la.ni.ze/

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• Homophones: solennisai, solennisé, solennisée, solennisées, solennisés, solennisez

Verb

solenniser

1. (transitive) to solemnize

Conjugation

Conjugation of solenniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	solenniser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	solennisant /sɔ.la.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		solennisé /sɔ.la.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	solennise /sɔ.la.niz/	solennises /sɔ.la.niz/	solennise /sɔ.la.niz/	solennisons /sɔ.la.ni.zɔ̃/	solennisez /sɔ.la.ni.ze/	solennisent /sɔ.la.niz/
	imperfect	solennisais /sɔ.la.ni.zɛ/	solennisais /sɔ.la.ni.zɛ/	solennisait /sɔ.la.ni.zɛ/	solennisions /sɔ.la.ni.zjɔ̃/	solennisiez /sɔ.la.ni.zje/	solennisaient /sɔ.la.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	solennisai /sɔ.la.ni.ze/	solennisas /sɔ.la.ni.za/	solennisa /sɔ.la.ni.za/	solennisâmes /sɔ.la.ni.zam/	solennisâtes /sɔ.la.ni.zat/	solennisèrent /sɔ.la.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	solenniserai /sɔ.la.niz.ʁe/	solenniseras /sɔ.la.niz.ʁa/	solennisera /sɔ.la.niz.ʁa/	solenniserons /sɔ.la.niz.ʁɔ̃/	solenniserez /sɔ.la.niz.ʁe/	solenniseront /sɔ.la.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	solenniserais /sɔ.la.niz.ʁɛ/	solenniserais /sɔ.la.niz.ʁɛ/	solenniserait /sɔ.la.niz.ʁɛ/	solenniserions /sɔ.la.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	solenniseriez /sɔ.la.ni.zə.ʁje/	solenniseraient /sɔ.la.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	solennise /sɔ.la.niz/	solennises /sɔ.la.niz/	solennise /sɔ.la.niz/	solennisions /sɔ.la.ni.zjɔ̃/	solennisiez /sɔ.la.ni.zje/	solennisent /sɔ.la.niz/
	imperfect2	solennisasse /sɔ.la.ni.zas/	solennisasses /sɔ.la.ni.zas/	solennisât /sɔ.la.ni.za/	solennisassions /sɔ.la.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	solennisassiez /sɔ.la.ni.za.sje/	solennisassent /sɔ.la.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	solennise /sɔ.la.niz/	—	solennisons /sɔ.la.ni.zɔ̃/	solennisez /sɔ.la.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).

Related terms

• solennel
• solennité

Further reading

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