temporiser
English
Noun
temporiser (plural temporisers)
- Alternative form of temporizer.
Anagrams
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
- (intransitive) to temporize, stall
- 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.