coloniser
English
Etymology
Noun
coloniser (plural colonisers)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
- 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 3 December 2021:
- Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
coloniser
- to colonise
Conjugation
Conjugation of coloniser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | coloniser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | colonisant /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | colonisé /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/ |
colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ |
colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
| imperfect | colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ |
colonisais /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ |
colonisait /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ |
colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/ |
colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/ |
colonisaient /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | colonisai /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/ |
colonisas /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ |
colonisa /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ |
colonisâmes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zam/ |
colonisâtes /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zat/ |
colonisèrent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | coloniserai /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/ |
coloniseras /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/ |
colonisera /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁa/ |
coloniserons /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ |
coloniserez /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁe/ |
coloniseront /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
coloniserais /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
coloniserait /kɔ.lɔ.niz.ʁɛ/ |
coloniserions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
coloniseriez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/ |
coloniseraient /kɔ.lɔ.niz.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 | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonises /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
colonisions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/ |
colonisiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zje/ |
colonisent /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
| imperfect2 | colonisasse /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ |
colonisasses /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ |
colonisât /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za/ |
colonisassions /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/ |
colonisassiez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.za.sje/ |
colonisassent /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | colonise /kɔ.lɔ.niz/ |
— | colonisons /kɔ.lɔ.ni.zɔ̃/ |
colonisez /kɔ.lɔ.ni.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
Further reading
- “coloniser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012