symboliser

English

Noun

symboliser (plural symbolisers)

1. Alternative form of symbolizer

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French

Verb

symboliser

1. to symbolize (to be symbolic of; to represent)

Conjugation

Conjugation of symboliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	symboliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	symbolisant /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		symbolisé /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	symbolise /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolises /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolise /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolisons /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɔ̃/	symbolisez /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.ze/	symbolisent /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/
	imperfect	symbolisais /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɛ/	symbolisais /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɛ/	symbolisait /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɛ/	symbolisions /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zjɔ̃/	symbolisiez /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zje/	symbolisaient /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	symbolisai /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.ze/	symbolisas /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.za/	symbolisa /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.za/	symbolisâmes /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zam/	symbolisâtes /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zat/	symbolisèrent /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɛʁ/
	future	symboliserai /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁe/	symboliseras /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁa/	symbolisera /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁa/	symboliserons /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁɔ̃/	symboliserez /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁe/	symboliseront /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	symboliserais /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁɛ/	symboliserais /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁɛ/	symboliserait /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz.ʁɛ/	symboliserions /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	symboliseriez /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zə.ʁje/	symboliseraient /sɛ̃.bɔ.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	symbolise /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolises /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolise /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	symbolisions /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zjɔ̃/	symbolisiez /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zje/	symbolisent /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/
	imperfect2	symbolisasse /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zas/	symbolisasses /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zas/	symbolisât /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.za/	symbolisassions /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.za.sjɔ̃/	symbolisassiez /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.za.sje/	symbolisassent /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	symbolise /sɛ̃.bɔ.liz/	—	symbolisons /sɛ̃.bɔ.li.zɔ̃/	symbolisez /sɛ̃.bɔ.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

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

symboliser

1. imperative of symbolisere