tranquilliser

See also: tranquiliser and tranquillizer

English

Noun

tranquilliser (plural tranquillisers)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tranquilizer.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tranquilliser

  1. to calm, to reassure
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎fr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:
      De cette manière, il se tranquillisa l’esprit, et continua son chemin....
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
      In this manner, he reassured himself, and continued on his way....

Conjugation
Conjugation of tranquilliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle tranquillisant
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɑ̃/
past participle tranquillisé
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/
infinitive
simple tranquilliser
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple tranquillisant
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillises
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillisons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɔ̃/		 tranquillisez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/		 tranquillisent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/
imperfect tranquillisais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/		 tranquillisais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/		 tranquillisait
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/		 tranquillisions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zjɔ̃/		 tranquillisiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zje/		 tranquillisaient
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛ/
past historic2 tranquillisai
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/		 tranquillisas
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/		 tranquillisa
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/		 tranquillisâmes
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zam/		 tranquillisâtes
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zat/		 tranquillisèrent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɛʁ/
future tranquilliserai
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁe/		 tranquilliseras
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁa/		 tranquillisera
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁa/		 tranquilliserons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɔ̃/		 tranquilliserez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁe/		 tranquilliseront
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɔ̃/
conditional tranquilliserais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/		 tranquilliserais
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/		 tranquilliserait
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.ʁɛ/		 tranquilliserions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zə.ʁjɔ̃/		 tranquilliseriez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zə.ʁje/		 tranquilliseraient
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz.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 tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillises
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 tranquillisions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zjɔ̃/		 tranquillisiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zje/		 tranquillisent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/
imperfect2 tranquillisasse
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/		 tranquillisasses
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/		 tranquillisât
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za/		 tranquillisassions
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za.sjɔ̃/		 tranquillisassiez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.za.sje/		 tranquillisassent
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — tranquillise
/tʁɑ̃.ki.jiz/		 — tranquillisons
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.zɔ̃/		 tranquillisez
/tʁɑ̃.ki.ji.ze/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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