focaliser

English

Noun

focaliser (plural focalisers)

  1. (UK) Alternative spelling of focalizer.

French

Etymology

    From focal +‎ -iser.

    Pronunciation

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

    focaliser

    1. to focus; to focalize
      • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2024:
        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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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