banaliser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
banaliser
- to banalise
- to downplay, normalize, trivialize; to dismiss something unusual and serious as commonplace
- L'accusé a reconnu ses gestes mais les a banalisés, disant que tout le monde agissait ainsi.
- The accused acknowledged his actions but downplayed them, saying that everyone behaved that way.
Conjugation
Conjugation of banaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | banaliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | banalisant /ba.na.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | banalisé /ba.na.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | banalise /ba.na.liz/ |
banalises /ba.na.liz/ |
banalise /ba.na.liz/ |
banalisons /ba.na.li.zɔ̃/ |
banalisez /ba.na.li.ze/ |
banalisent /ba.na.liz/ |
| imperfect | banalisais /ba.na.li.zɛ/ |
banalisais /ba.na.li.zɛ/ |
banalisait /ba.na.li.zɛ/ |
banalisions /ba.na.li.zjɔ̃/ |
banalisiez /ba.na.li.zje/ |
banalisaient /ba.na.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | banalisai /ba.na.li.ze/ |
banalisas /ba.na.li.za/ |
banalisa /ba.na.li.za/ |
banalisâmes /ba.na.li.zam/ |
banalisâtes /ba.na.li.zat/ |
banalisèrent /ba.na.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | banaliserai /ba.na.liz.ʁe/ |
banaliseras /ba.na.liz.ʁa/ |
banalisera /ba.na.liz.ʁa/ |
banaliserons /ba.na.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
banaliserez /ba.na.liz.ʁe/ |
banaliseront /ba.na.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | banaliserais /ba.na.liz.ʁɛ/ |
banaliserais /ba.na.liz.ʁɛ/ |
banaliserait /ba.na.liz.ʁɛ/ |
banaliserions /ba.na.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
banaliseriez /ba.na.li.zə.ʁje/ |
banaliseraient /ba.na.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 | banalise /ba.na.liz/ |
banalises /ba.na.liz/ |
banalise /ba.na.liz/ |
banalisions /ba.na.li.zjɔ̃/ |
banalisiez /ba.na.li.zje/ |
banalisent /ba.na.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | banalisasse /ba.na.li.zas/ |
banalisasses /ba.na.li.zas/ |
banalisât /ba.na.li.za/ |
banalisassions /ba.na.li.za.sjɔ̃/ |
banalisassiez /ba.na.li.za.sje/ |
banalisassent /ba.na.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | banalise /ba.na.liz/ |
— | banalisons /ba.na.li.zɔ̃/ |
banalisez /ba.na.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- banalisé (e.g. auto-patrouille banalisé ― unmarked police car)
- banalisable
- banalisation
Further reading
- “banaliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.