focaliser

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English

Noun

focaliser (plural focalisers)

  1. (British) Alternative spelling of focalizer

French

Etymology

From focal +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɔ.ka.li.ze/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

focaliser

  1. to focus; to focalize
    • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎:
      Sauf que, cette fois-ci, les élus de la nation, représentés dans la commission des Finances, focalisent toute leur attention sur les hauts salaires.
      This time, however, the nation's elected representatives on the Finance Committee are focusing all their attention on high salaries.

Conjugation

Conjugation of focaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple focaliser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple focalisant
/fɔ.ka.li.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle focalisé
/fɔ.ka.li.ze/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present focalise
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalises
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalise
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalisons
/fɔ.ka.li.zɔ̃/ 		focalisez
/fɔ.ka.li.ze/ 		focalisent
/fɔ.ka.liz/
imperfect focalisais
/fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ 		focalisais
/fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ 		focalisait
/fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/ 		focalisions
/fɔ.ka.li.zjɔ̃/ 		focalisiez
/fɔ.ka.li.zje/ 		focalisaient
/fɔ.ka.li.zɛ/
past historic2 focalisai
/fɔ.ka.li.ze/ 		focalisas
/fɔ.ka.li.za/ 		focalisa
/fɔ.ka.li.za/ 		focalisâmes
/fɔ.ka.li.zam/ 		focalisâtes
/fɔ.ka.li.zat/ 		focalisèrent
/fɔ.ka.li.zɛʁ/
future focaliserai
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁe/ 		focaliseras
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁa/ 		focalisera
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁa/ 		focaliserons
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/ 		focaliserez
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁe/ 		focaliseront
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional focaliserais
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ 		focaliserais
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ 		focaliserait
/fɔ.ka.liz.ʁɛ/ 		focaliserions
/fɔ.ka.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		focaliseriez
/fɔ.ka.li.zə.ʁje/ 		focaliseraient
/fɔ.ka.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 focalise
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalises
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalise
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		focalisions
/fɔ.ka.li.zjɔ̃/ 		focalisiez
/fɔ.ka.li.zje/ 		focalisent
/fɔ.ka.liz/
imperfect2 focalisasse
/fɔ.ka.li.zas/ 		focalisasses
/fɔ.ka.li.zas/ 		focalisât
/fɔ.ka.li.za/ 		focalisassions
/fɔ.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/ 		focalisassiez
/fɔ.ka.li.za.sje/ 		focalisassent
/fɔ.ka.li.zas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — focalise
/fɔ.ka.liz/ 		— focalisons
/fɔ.ka.li.zɔ̃/ 		focalisez
/fɔ.ka.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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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