synthétiser

French

Etymology

From synthèse (“synthesis”), ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

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Verb

synthétiser

1. to synthesize

   Synonym: résumer

   Antonym: analyser

Conjugation

Conjugation of synthétiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	synthétiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	synthétisant /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		synthétisé /sɛ̃.te.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	synthétise /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétises /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétise /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétisons /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɔ̃/	synthétisez /sɛ̃.te.ti.ze/	synthétisent /sɛ̃.te.tiz/
	imperfect	synthétisais /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɛ/	synthétisais /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɛ/	synthétisait /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɛ/	synthétisions /sɛ̃.te.ti.zjɔ̃/	synthétisiez /sɛ̃.te.ti.zje/	synthétisaient /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	synthétisai /sɛ̃.te.ti.ze/	synthétisas /sɛ̃.te.ti.za/	synthétisa /sɛ̃.te.ti.za/	synthétisâmes /sɛ̃.te.ti.zam/	synthétisâtes /sɛ̃.te.ti.zat/	synthétisèrent /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	synthétiserai /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁe/	synthétiseras /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁa/	synthétisera /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁa/	synthétiserons /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	synthétiserez /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁe/	synthétiseront /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	synthétiserais /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁɛ/	synthétiserais /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁɛ/	synthétiserait /sɛ̃.te.tiz.ʁɛ/	synthétiserions /sɛ̃.te.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	synthétiseriez /sɛ̃.te.ti.zə.ʁje/	synthétiseraient /sɛ̃.te.tiz.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	synthétise /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétises /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétise /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	synthétisions /sɛ̃.te.ti.zjɔ̃/	synthétisiez /sɛ̃.te.ti.zje/	synthétisent /sɛ̃.te.tiz/
	imperfect2	synthétisasse /sɛ̃.te.ti.zas/	synthétisasses /sɛ̃.te.ti.zas/	synthétisât /sɛ̃.te.ti.za/	synthétisassions /sɛ̃.te.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	synthétisassiez /sɛ̃.te.ti.za.sje/	synthétisassent /sɛ̃.te.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	synthétise /sɛ̃.te.tiz/	—	synthétisons /sɛ̃.te.ti.zɔ̃/	synthétisez /sɛ̃.te.ti.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

• synthétique

Further reading

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