tranquilliser

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See also: tranquiliser and tranquillizer

English

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Noun

tranquilliser (plural tranquillisers)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tranquilliser

  1. to calm, to reassure
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎fr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:
      De cette manière, il se tranquillisa l’esprit, et continua son chemin....
      In this manner, he reassured himself, and continued on his way....

Conjugation

Conjugation of tranquilliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple tranquilliser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple tranquillisant
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle tranquillisé
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillises
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillisons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/ 		tranquillisez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/ 		tranquillisent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
imperfect tranquillisais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/ 		tranquillisais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/ 		tranquillisait
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/ 		tranquillisions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/ 		tranquillisiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/ 		tranquillisaient
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/
past historic2 tranquillisai
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/ 		tranquillisas
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/ 		tranquillisa
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/ 		tranquillisâmes
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zam/ 		tranquillisâtes
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zat/ 		tranquillisèrent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛʁ/
future tranquilliserai
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/ 		tranquilliseras
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/ 		tranquillisera
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/ 		tranquilliserons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/ 		tranquilliserez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/ 		tranquilliseront
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional tranquilliserais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/ 		tranquilliserais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/ 		tranquilliserait
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/ 		tranquilliserions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		tranquilliseriez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁje/ 		tranquilliseraient
/tʁɑ̃.ki.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 tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillises
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		tranquillisions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/ 		tranquillisiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/ 		tranquillisent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
imperfect2 tranquillisasse
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/ 		tranquillisasses
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/ 		tranquillisât
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/ 		tranquillisassions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sjɔ̃/ 		tranquillisassiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sje/ 		tranquillisassent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/ 		— tranquillisons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/ 		tranquillisez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.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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