tranquilliser

See also: tranquiliser and tranquillizer

English

Noun

tranquilliser (plural tranquillisers)

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: tranquillisai, tranquillisé, tranquillisée, tranquillisées, tranquillisés, tranquillisez

Verb

tranquilliser

1. to calm, to reassure
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.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....

     In this manner, he reassured himself, and continued on his way....

Conjugation

Conjugation of tranquilliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tranquilliser
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tranquillisant /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		tranquillisé /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/	tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/	tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
	imperfect	tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisais /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisait /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/	tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/	tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/	tranquillisaient /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	tranquillisai /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.ze/	tranquillisas /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisa /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisâmes /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zam/	tranquillisâtes /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zat/	tranquillisèrent /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɛʁ/
	future	tranquilliserai /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/	tranquilliseras /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/	tranquillisera /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁa/	tranquilliserons /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/	tranquilliserez /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁe/	tranquilliseront /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserais /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserait /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz.ʁɛ/	tranquilliserions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	tranquilliseriez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zə.ʁje/	tranquilliseraient /tʁɑ̃.ki.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	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillises /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillise /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/	tranquillisions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zjɔ̃/	tranquillisiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zje/	tranquillisent /tʁɑ̃.ki.liz/
	imperfect2	tranquillisasse /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/	tranquillisasses /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zas/	tranquillisât /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za/	tranquillisassions /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sjɔ̃/	tranquillisassiez /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.za.sje/	tranquillisassent /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.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.liz/	—	tranquillisons /tʁɑ̃.ki.li.zɔ̃/	tranquillisez /tʁɑ̃.ki.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

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