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tranquilliser
tranquilliser
See also: tranquiliser and tranquillizer
English
Noun
tranquilliser (plural tranquillisers)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/
- Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: tranquillisai, tranquillisé, tranquillisée, tranquillisées, tranquillisés, tranquillisez
Verb
tranquilliser
- 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....
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Conjugation
Conjugation of tranquilliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | tranquilliser | avoir tranquillisé | |||||
| gerund | en tranquillisant | en ayant tranquillisé | |||||
| present participle | tranquillisant /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | tranquillisé /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɔ̃/ |
tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/ |
tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
| imperfect | tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/ |
tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/ |
tranquillisait /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/ |
tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zjɔ̃/ |
tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zje/ |
tranquillisaient /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | tranquillisai /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/ |
tranquillisas /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/ |
tranquillisa /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/ |
tranquillisâmes /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zam/ |
tranquillisâtes /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zat/ |
tranquillisèrent /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | tranquilliserai /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁe/ |
tranquilliseras /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁa/ |
tranquillisera /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁa/ |
tranquilliserons /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
tranquilliserez /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁe/ |
tranquilliseront /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/ |
tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/ |
tranquilliserait /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/ |
tranquilliserions /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tranquilliseriez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zə.ʁje/ |
tranquilliseraient /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zjɔ̃/ |
tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zje/ |
tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
| imperfect1 |
tranquillisasse /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/ |
tranquillisasses /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/ |
tranquillisât /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/ |
tranquillisassions /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za.sjɔ̃/ |
tranquillisassiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za.sje/ |
tranquillisassent /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/ |
— | tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɔ̃/ |
tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/ |
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