fertiliser

English

Noun

fertiliser (countable and uncountable, plural fertilisers)

1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of fertilizer

French

Etymology

From fertile +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

fertiliser

1. to fertilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of fertiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fertiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fertilisant /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fertilisé /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilises /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilisons /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɔ̃/	fertilisez /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/	fertilisent /fɛʁ.ti.liz/
	imperfect	fertilisais /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/	fertilisais /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/	fertilisait /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/	fertilisions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	fertilisiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zje/	fertilisaient /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	fertilisai /fɛʁ.ti.li.ze/	fertilisas /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/	fertilisa /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/	fertilisâmes /fɛʁ.ti.li.zam/	fertilisâtes /fɛʁ.ti.li.zat/	fertilisèrent /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɛʁ/
	future	fertiliserai /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁe/	fertiliseras /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁa/	fertilisera /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁa/	fertiliserons /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/	fertiliserez /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁe/	fertiliseront /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fertiliserais /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	fertiliserais /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	fertiliserait /fɛʁ.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	fertiliserions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	fertiliseriez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zə.ʁje/	fertiliseraient /fɛʁ.ti.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	fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilises /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	fertilisions /fɛʁ.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	fertilisiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.zje/	fertilisent /fɛʁ.ti.liz/
	imperfect2	fertilisasse /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/	fertilisasses /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/	fertilisât /fɛʁ.ti.li.za/	fertilisassions /fɛʁ.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/	fertilisassiez /fɛʁ.ti.li.za.sje/	fertilisassent /fɛʁ.ti.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fertilise /fɛʁ.ti.liz/	—	fertilisons /fɛʁ.ti.li.zɔ̃/	fertilisez /fɛʁ.ti.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).

Related terms

• fertilisation

Further reading

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