lexicaliser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛk.si.ka.li.ze/

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Verb

lexicaliser

1. lexicalize (to convert to a single lexical unit)

Conjugation

Conjugation of lexicaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lexicaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lexicalisant /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lexicalisé /lɛk.si.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	lexicalise /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalises /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalise /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalisons /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɔ̃/	lexicalisez /lɛk.si.ka.li.ze/	lexicalisent /lɛk.si.ka.liz/
	imperfect	lexicalisais /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɛ/	lexicalisais /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɛ/	lexicalisait /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɛ/	lexicalisions /lɛk.si.ka.li.zjɔ̃/	lexicalisiez /lɛk.si.ka.li.zje/	lexicalisaient /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	lexicalisai /lɛk.si.ka.li.ze/	lexicalisas /lɛk.si.ka.li.za/	lexicalisa /lɛk.si.ka.li.za/	lexicalisâmes /lɛk.si.ka.li.zam/	lexicalisâtes /lɛk.si.ka.li.zat/	lexicalisèrent /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɛʁ/
	future	lexicaliserai /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁe/	lexicaliseras /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁa/	lexicalisera /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁa/	lexicaliserons /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/	lexicaliserez /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁe/	lexicaliseront /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lexicaliserais /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁɛ/	lexicaliserais /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁɛ/	lexicaliserait /lɛk.si.ka.liz.ʁɛ/	lexicaliserions /lɛk.si.ka.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	lexicaliseriez /lɛk.si.ka.li.zə.ʁje/	lexicaliseraient /lɛk.si.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	lexicalise /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalises /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalise /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	lexicalisions /lɛk.si.ka.li.zjɔ̃/	lexicalisiez /lɛk.si.ka.li.zje/	lexicalisent /lɛk.si.ka.liz/
	imperfect2	lexicalisasse /lɛk.si.ka.li.zas/	lexicalisasses /lɛk.si.ka.li.zas/	lexicalisât /lɛk.si.ka.li.za/	lexicalisassions /lɛk.si.ka.li.za.sjɔ̃/	lexicalisassiez /lɛk.si.ka.li.za.sje/	lexicalisassent /lɛk.si.ka.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lexicalise /lɛk.si.ka.liz/	—	lexicalisons /lɛk.si.ka.li.zɔ̃/	lexicalisez /lɛk.si.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).

Further reading

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