pulvériser

See also: pulveriser

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pulverizāre, from Latin pulvis, pulveris (“dust, powder”) (whence French poudre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/

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Verb

pulvériser

1. (transitive) to pulverise (to grind into powder)

   Near-synonym: réduire en poussière

2. (transitive, informal, figuratively) to pulverise (defeat thoroughly)

   Son principal objectif a toujours été de pulvériser le monde. ― His main objective has always been to destroy the world.

3. to spray (to project as liquid droplets)

   pulvériser de l’eau sur une plante ― to spray water on a plant

Conjugation

Conjugation of pulvériser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pulvériser
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pulvérisant /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		pulvérisé /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérises /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérisons /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɔ̃/	pulvérisez /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/	pulvérisent /pyl.ve.ʁiz/
	imperfect	pulvérisais /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/	pulvérisais /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/	pulvérisait /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/	pulvérisions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	pulvérisiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zje/	pulvérisaient /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛ/
	past historic2	pulvérisai /pyl.ve.ʁi.ze/	pulvérisas /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/	pulvérisa /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/	pulvérisâmes /pyl.ve.ʁi.zam/	pulvérisâtes /pyl.ve.ʁi.zat/	pulvérisèrent /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɛʁ/
	future	pulvériserai /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁe/	pulvériseras /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁa/	pulvérisera /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁa/	pulvériserons /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/	pulvériserez /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁe/	pulvériseront /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pulvériserais /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	pulvériserais /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	pulvériserait /pyl.ve.ʁiz.ʁɛ/	pulvériserions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	pulvériseriez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zə.ʁje/	pulvériseraient /pyl.ve.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	pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérises /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	pulvérisions /pyl.ve.ʁi.zjɔ̃/	pulvérisiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.zje/	pulvérisent /pyl.ve.ʁiz/
	imperfect2	pulvérisasse /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/	pulvérisasses /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/	pulvérisât /pyl.ve.ʁi.za/	pulvérisassions /pyl.ve.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/	pulvérisassiez /pyl.ve.ʁi.za.sje/	pulvérisassent /pyl.ve.ʁi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pulvérise /pyl.ve.ʁiz/	—	pulvérisons /pyl.ve.ʁi.zɔ̃/	pulvérisez /pyl.ve.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).

Related terms

• pulvérisateur
• pulvérisation

Further reading

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