valoriser

French

Etymology

From valeur +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.lɔ.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

valoriser

1. to valorize, to add value

   valoriser les déchets ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Conjugation of valoriser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	valoriser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	valorisant /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		valorisé /va.lɔ.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	valorise /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorises /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorise /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorisons /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	valorisez /va.lɔ.ʁi.ze/	valorisent /va.lɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect	valorisais /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	valorisais /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	valorisait /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɛ/	valorisions /va.lɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	valorisiez /va.lɔ.ʁi.zje/	valorisaient /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	valorisai /va.lɔ.ʁi.ze/	valorisas /va.lɔ.ʁi.za/	valorisa /va.lɔ.ʁi.za/	valorisâmes /va.lɔ.ʁi.zam/	valorisâtes /va.lɔ.ʁi.zat/	valorisèrent /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	valoriserai /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	valoriseras /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	valorisera /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁa/	valoriserons /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	valoriserez /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁe/	valoriseront /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	valoriserais /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	valoriserais /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	valoriserait /va.lɔ.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	valoriserions /va.lɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	valoriseriez /va.lɔ.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	valoriseraient /va.lɔ.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	valorise /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorises /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorise /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	valorisions /va.lɔ.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	valorisiez /va.lɔ.ʁi.zje/	valorisent /va.lɔ.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	valorisasse /va.lɔ.ʁi.zas/	valorisasses /va.lɔ.ʁi.zas/	valorisât /va.lɔ.ʁi.za/	valorisassions /va.lɔ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	valorisassiez /va.lɔ.ʁi.za.sje/	valorisassent /va.lɔ.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	valorise /va.lɔ.ʁiz/	—	valorisons /va.lɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃/	valorisez /va.lɔ.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).

Derived terms

• revaloriser
• valorisant

Further reading

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