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.