attiser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French atisier, from Vulgar Latin *attītiāre, derived from Latin tītiō (“firebrand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ti.ze/

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Verb

attiser

1. (transitive) to stir up (fire); to rekindle
2. (transitive, figuratively) to fan the flames of, to stir up (emotion etc.); to inflame

Conjugation

Conjugation of attiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	attiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attisant /a.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attisé /a.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attise /a.tiz/	attises /a.tiz/	attise /a.tiz/	attisons /a.ti.zɔ̃/	attisez /a.ti.ze/	attisent /a.tiz/
	imperfect	attisais /a.ti.zɛ/	attisais /a.ti.zɛ/	attisait /a.ti.zɛ/	attisions /a.ti.zjɔ̃/	attisiez /a.ti.zje/	attisaient /a.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	attisai /a.ti.ze/	attisas /a.ti.za/	attisa /a.ti.za/	attisâmes /a.ti.zam/	attisâtes /a.ti.zat/	attisèrent /a.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	attiserai /a.tiz.ʁe/	attiseras /a.tiz.ʁa/	attisera /a.tiz.ʁa/	attiserons /a.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	attiserez /a.tiz.ʁe/	attiseront /a.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attiserais /a.tiz.ʁɛ/	attiserais /a.tiz.ʁɛ/	attiserait /a.tiz.ʁɛ/	attiserions /a.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	attiseriez /a.ti.zə.ʁje/	attiseraient /a.tiz.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	attise /a.tiz/	attises /a.tiz/	attise /a.tiz/	attisions /a.ti.zjɔ̃/	attisiez /a.ti.zje/	attisent /a.tiz/
	imperfect2	attisasse /a.ti.zas/	attisasses /a.ti.zas/	attisât /a.ti.za/	attisassions /a.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	attisassiez /a.ti.za.sje/	attisassent /a.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attise /a.tiz/	—	attisons /a.ti.zɔ̃/	attisez /a.ti.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).

Related terms

• tison
  • tisonner
    • tisonnier

Further reading

• “attiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

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