capitaliser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/
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Verb
capitaliser
- (transitive, typography) to capitalize
- (transitive, finance) to capitalize
- (intransitive) to hoard, to stockpile
- (intransitive, figuratively) to capitalize [with sur ‘on something’]
- Synonym: tirer profit de
Conjugation
Conjugation of capitaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | capitaliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | capitalisant /ka.pi.ta.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | capitalisé /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalises /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalisons /ka.pi.ta.li.zɔ̃/ |
capitalisez /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/ |
capitalisent /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
| imperfect | capitalisais /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/ |
capitalisais /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/ |
capitalisait /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/ |
capitalisions /ka.pi.ta.li.zjɔ̃/ |
capitalisiez /ka.pi.ta.li.zje/ |
capitalisaient /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | capitalisai /ka.pi.ta.li.ze/ |
capitalisas /ka.pi.ta.li.za/ |
capitalisa /ka.pi.ta.li.za/ |
capitalisâmes /ka.pi.ta.li.zam/ |
capitalisâtes /ka.pi.ta.li.zat/ |
capitalisèrent /ka.pi.ta.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | capitaliserai /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁe/ |
capitaliseras /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁa/ |
capitalisera /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁa/ |
capitaliserons /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
capitaliserez /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁe/ |
capitaliseront /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | capitaliserais /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/ |
capitaliserais /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/ |
capitaliserait /ka.pi.ta.liz.ʁɛ/ |
capitaliserions /ka.pi.ta.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
capitaliseriez /ka.pi.ta.li.zə.ʁje/ |
capitaliseraient /ka.pi.ta.liz.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 | capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalises /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
capitalisions /ka.pi.ta.li.zjɔ̃/ |
capitalisiez /ka.pi.ta.li.zje/ |
capitalisent /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | capitalisasse /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/ |
capitalisasses /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/ |
capitalisât /ka.pi.ta.li.za/ |
capitalisassions /ka.pi.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃/ |
capitalisassiez /ka.pi.ta.li.za.sje/ |
capitalisassent /ka.pi.ta.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | capitalise /ka.pi.ta.liz/ |
— | capitalisons /ka.pi.ta.li.zɔ̃/ |
capitalisez /ka.pi.ta.li.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “capitaliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012