caractériser
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/
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Verb
caractériser
- to characterize
Conjugation
Conjugation of caractériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | caractériser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | caractérisant /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | caractérisé /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérises /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérisons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
caractérisez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
caractérisent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect | caractérisais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisait /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ |
caractérisions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
caractérisiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zje/ |
caractérisaient /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | caractérisai /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.ze/ |
caractérisas /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisa /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisâmes /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zam/ |
caractérisâtes /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zat/ |
caractérisèrent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | caractériserai /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
caractériseras /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
caractérisera /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁa/ |
caractériserons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
caractériserez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁe/ |
caractériseront /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | caractériserais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserais /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserait /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
caractériserions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
caractériseriez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zə.ʁje/ |
caractériseraient /ka.ʁak.te.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 | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérises /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
caractérisions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
caractérisiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zje/ |
caractérisent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
| imperfect2 | caractérisasse /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ |
caractérisasses /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ |
caractérisât /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za/ |
caractérisassions /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ |
caractérisassiez /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.za.sje/ |
caractérisassent /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caractérise /ka.ʁak.te.ʁiz/ |
— | caractérisons /ka.ʁak.te.ʁi.zɔ̃/ |
caractérisez /ka.ʁak.te.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “caractériser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.