sympathiser
English
Etymology
From sympathise + -er.
Noun
sympathiser (plural sympathisers)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- ‘ […] And I tell you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end of me.’
- 2013, Nadeem Aslam, chapter 4, in The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber:
- The Ardent Spirit pupils now belong to him alone and through them he’ll set his plans in motion, moulding them to be warrior saints, brilliant in deceit against the West and its sympathisers here at home.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/
Audio: (file)
Verb
sympathiser
- to hit it off
- Synonym: fraterniser
Conjugation
Conjugation of sympathiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sympathiser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sympathisant /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sympathisé /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/ |
sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/ |
sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
| imperfect | sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/ |
sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/ |
sympathisait /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/ |
sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/ |
sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/ |
sympathisaient /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sympathisai /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/ |
sympathisas /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/ |
sympathisa /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/ |
sympathisâmes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zam/ |
sympathisâtes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zat/ |
sympathisèrent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | sympathiserai /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/ |
sympathiseras /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/ |
sympathisera /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/ |
sympathiserons /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
sympathiserez /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/ |
sympathiseront /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
sympathiserait /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
sympathiserions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sympathiseriez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁje/ |
sympathiseraient /sɛ̃.pa.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 | sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/ |
sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/ |
sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
| imperfect2 | sympathisasse /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/ |
sympathisasses /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/ |
sympathisât /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/ |
sympathisassions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sjɔ̃/ |
sympathisassiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sje/ |
sympathisassent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/ |
— | sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/ |
sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Dutch: sympathiseren
Further reading
- “sympathiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.