populariser

English

Etymology

From popularise +‎ -er.

Noun

populariser (plural popularisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of popularizer.
   • 1999 March 20, Natalie Angier, The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 7 March 2022:

     When a female friend of mine questioned Robert Wright, the author of The Moral Animal and one of the prime popularisers of this position, about some of his unshakable convictions in the male-female contrariety, he opened his eyes wide, stared at her, and said, manfully, "You don’t know what it’s like."

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

populariser

1. to popularize

Conjugation

Conjugation of populariser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	populariser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	popularisant /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		popularisé /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	popularise /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularises /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularise /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularisons /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɔ̃/	popularisez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.ze/	popularisent /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/
	imperfect	popularisais /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɛ/	popularisais /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɛ/	popularisait /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɛ/	popularisions /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	popularisiez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zje/	popularisaient /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	popularisai /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.ze/	popularisas /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.za/	popularisa /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.za/	popularisâmes /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zam/	popularisâtes /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zat/	popularisèrent /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	populariserai /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁe/	populariseras /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁa/	popularisera /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁa/	populariserons /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	populariserez /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁe/	populariseront /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	populariserais /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	populariserais /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	populariserait /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	populariserions /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	populariseriez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	populariseraient /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz.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	popularise /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularises /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularise /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	popularisions /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	popularisiez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zje/	popularisent /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	popularisasse /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zas/	popularisasses /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zas/	popularisât /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.za/	popularisassions /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	popularisassiez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.za.sje/	popularisassent /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	popularise /pɔ.py.la.ʁiz/	—	popularisons /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.zɔ̃/	popularisez /pɔ.py.la.ʁi.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

• populaire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• propulserai