immobiliser

English

Alternative forms

• immobilizer

Etymology

From immobilise ‎ -er.

Noun

immobiliser (plural immobilisers)

1. Something or someone that immobilises.
   1. (medicine) A splint.
   2. An electronic security device fitted to an automobile that prevents the engine from running unless the correct key (or other token) is present.

Translations

splint — see splint

security device

• Finnish: ajonestolaite (fi)
• Georgian: იმობილიზატორი (imobilizaṭori)
• Hungarian: indításgátló, immobiliser (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: startsperre (no) m or f

• Slovak: imobilizér

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

immobiliser

1. to immobilize

Conjugation

Conjugation of immobiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	immobiliser
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	immobilisant /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		immobilisé /i.mɔ.bi.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilises /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilisons /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɔ̃/	immobilisez /i.mɔ.bi.li.ze/	immobilisent /i.mɔ.bi.liz/
	imperfect	immobilisais /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisais /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisait /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/	immobilisions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	immobilisiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zje/	immobilisaient /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	immobilisai /i.mɔ.bi.li.ze/	immobilisas /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisa /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisâmes /i.mɔ.bi.li.zam/	immobilisâtes /i.mɔ.bi.li.zat/	immobilisèrent /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɛʁ/
	future	immobiliserai /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁe/	immobiliseras /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁa/	immobilisera /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁa/	immobiliserons /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/	immobiliserez /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁe/	immobiliseront /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	immobiliserais /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserais /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserait /i.mɔ.bi.liz.ʁɛ/	immobiliserions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	immobiliseriez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zə.ʁje/	immobiliseraient /i.mɔ.bi.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	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilises /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	immobilisions /i.mɔ.bi.li.zjɔ̃/	immobilisiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.zje/	immobilisent /i.mɔ.bi.liz/
	imperfect2	immobilisasse /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/	immobilisasses /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/	immobilisât /i.mɔ.bi.li.za/	immobilisassions /i.mɔ.bi.li.za.sjɔ̃/	immobilisassiez /i.mɔ.bi.li.za.sje/	immobilisassent /i.mɔ.bi.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	immobilise /i.mɔ.bi.liz/	—	immobilisons /i.mɔ.bi.li.zɔ̃/	immobilisez /i.mɔ.bi.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

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

Anagrams

• immobiliers