ironiser

English

Alternative forms

• ironizer

Etymology

From ironise +‎ -er.

Noun

ironiser (plural ironisers)

1. Someone who speaks ironically

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ironiser

1. to be ironic
2. to say ironically

Conjugation

Conjugation of ironiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ironiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ironisant /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ironisé /i.ʁɔ.ni.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ironise /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironises /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironise /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironisons /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	ironisez /i.ʁɔ.ni.ze/	ironisent /i.ʁɔ.niz/
	imperfect	ironisais /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɛ/	ironisais /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɛ/	ironisait /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɛ/	ironisions /i.ʁɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	ironisiez /i.ʁɔ.ni.zje/	ironisaient /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɛ/
	past historic2	ironisai /i.ʁɔ.ni.ze/	ironisas /i.ʁɔ.ni.za/	ironisa /i.ʁɔ.ni.za/	ironisâmes /i.ʁɔ.ni.zam/	ironisâtes /i.ʁɔ.ni.zat/	ironisèrent /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɛʁ/
	future	ironiserai /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁe/	ironiseras /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁa/	ironisera /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁa/	ironiserons /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/	ironiserez /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁe/	ironiseront /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ironiserais /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	ironiserais /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	ironiserait /i.ʁɔ.niz.ʁɛ/	ironiserions /i.ʁɔ.ni.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	ironiseriez /i.ʁɔ.ni.zə.ʁje/	ironiseraient /i.ʁɔ.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	ironise /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironises /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironise /i.ʁɔ.niz/	ironisions /i.ʁɔ.ni.zjɔ̃/	ironisiez /i.ʁɔ.ni.zje/	ironisent /i.ʁɔ.niz/
	imperfect2	ironisasse /i.ʁɔ.ni.zas/	ironisasses /i.ʁɔ.ni.zas/	ironisât /i.ʁɔ.ni.za/	ironisassions /i.ʁɔ.ni.za.sjɔ̃/	ironisassiez /i.ʁɔ.ni.za.sje/	ironisassent /i.ʁɔ.ni.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ironise /i.ʁɔ.niz/	—	ironisons /i.ʁɔ.ni.zɔ̃/	ironisez /i.ʁɔ.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: 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

• ironie
• ironique

Further reading

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