temporiser

English

Noun

temporiser (plural temporisers)

1. Alternative form of temporizer

Anagrams

• spirometer, spirometre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French temporiser, a borrowing from Medieval Latin temporizāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

temporiser

1. (intransitive) to temporize, stall

   Synonyms: ajourner, différer

   • 2024 July 8, Laurent Alexander, “Qui pour succéder à Gabriel Attal à Matignon ?”, in La Provence, page 4:

     Autre figure montante à gauche, l’écologiste Marine Tondelier a choisi de temporiser hier soir, déclarant que le temps n’était pas aux “courses de petits chevaux” ni au nom (de la) Premier(ère) ministre, mais au “travail et (au) collectif”.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of temporiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	temporiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	temporisant /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		temporisé /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	temporise /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporises /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporise /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporisons /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	temporisez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.ze/	temporisent /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	temporisais /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	temporisais /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	temporisait /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	temporisions /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	temporisiez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zje/	temporisaient /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	temporisai /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.ze/	temporisas /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.za/	temporisa /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.za/	temporisâmes /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zam/	temporisâtes /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zat/	temporisèrent /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	temporiserai /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	temporiseras /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	temporisera /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	temporiserons /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	temporiserez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	temporiseront /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	temporiserais /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	temporiserais /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	temporiserait /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	temporiserions /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	temporiseriez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	temporiseraient /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz.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	temporise /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporises /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporise /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	temporisions /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	temporisiez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zje/	temporisent /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	temporisasse /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zas/	temporisasses /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zas/	temporisât /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.za/	temporisassions /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	temporisassiez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	temporisassent /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	temporise /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁiz/	—	temporisons /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	temporisez /tɑ̃.pɔ.ʁi.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).

Derived terms

• temporisateur
• temporiseur

Descendants

• → Romanian: temporiza

Further reading

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