ubériser

French

Etymology

From the American brand of the company Uber, which disrupted the taxicab industry by creating a business model allowing private drivers to be paid for providing a similar service, + -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.be.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

ubériser

1. (transitive) to uberize (US), uberise (UK)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ubériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ubériser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ubérisant /y.be.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ubérisé /y.be.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ubérise /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérises /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérise /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérisons /y.be.ʁi.zɔ̃/	ubérisez /y.be.ʁi.ze/	ubérisent /y.be.ʁiz/
	imperfect	ubérisais /y.be.ʁi.zɛ/	ubérisais /y.be.ʁi.zɛ/	ubérisait /y.be.ʁi.zɛ/	ubérisions /y.be.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	ubérisiez /y.be.ʁi.zje/	ubérisaient /y.be.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	ubérisai /y.be.ʁi.ze/	ubérisas /y.be.ʁi.za/	ubérisa /y.be.ʁi.za/	ubérisâmes /y.be.ʁi.zam/	ubérisâtes /y.be.ʁi.zat/	ubérisèrent /y.be.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	ubériserai /y.be.ʁiz.ʁe/	ubériseras /y.be.ʁiz.ʁa/	ubérisera /y.be.ʁiz.ʁa/	ubériserons /y.be.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	ubériserez /y.be.ʁiz.ʁe/	ubériseront /y.be.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ubériserais /y.be.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	ubériserais /y.be.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	ubériserait /y.be.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	ubériserions /y.be.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	ubériseriez /y.be.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	ubériseraient /y.be.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	ubérise /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérises /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérise /y.be.ʁiz/	ubérisions /y.be.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	ubérisiez /y.be.ʁi.zje/	ubérisent /y.be.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	ubérisasse /y.be.ʁi.zas/	ubérisasses /y.be.ʁi.zas/	ubérisât /y.be.ʁi.za/	ubérisassions /y.be.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	ubérisassiez /y.be.ʁi.za.sje/	ubérisassent /y.be.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ubérise /y.be.ʁiz/	—	ubérisons /y.be.ʁi.zɔ̃/	ubérisez /y.be.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

• ubérisation

Further reading

• “ubériser” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “ubériser” in L’Internaute.