policer
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəˈliːsə(ɹ)/
Noun
policer (plural policers)
- One who, or that which, polices.
- 1999, Kavita Datta, Gareth A Jones, Housing and finance in developing countries:
- […] traditional cultural notions of womanhood, with women seen as moral guardians of the household and policers of recalcitrant men.
- (computing) A software component that enforces a security policy.
- a traffic policer; a bandwidth policer
Anagrams
French
Etymology
police (“police”) + -er (infinitive suffix)
Pronunciation
Verb
policer
- to police
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of policer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | policer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | poliçant /pɔ.li.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | policé /pɔ.li.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | police /pɔ.lis/ |
polices /pɔ.lis/ |
police /pɔ.lis/ |
poliçons /pɔ.li.sɔ̃/ |
policez /pɔ.li.se/ |
policent /pɔ.lis/ |
| imperfect | poliçais /pɔ.li.sɛ/ |
poliçais /pɔ.li.sɛ/ |
poliçait /pɔ.li.sɛ/ |
policions /pɔ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
policiez /pɔ.li.sje/ |
poliçaient /pɔ.li.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | poliçai /pɔ.li.se/ |
poliças /pɔ.li.sa/ |
poliça /pɔ.li.sa/ |
poliçâmes /pɔ.li.sam/ |
poliçâtes /pɔ.li.sat/ |
policèrent /pɔ.li.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | policerai /pɔ.li.sʁe/ |
policeras /pɔ.li.sʁa/ |
policera /pɔ.li.sʁa/ |
policerons /pɔ.li.sʁɔ̃/ |
policerez /pɔ.li.sʁe/ |
policeront /pɔ.li.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | policerais /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/ |
policerais /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/ |
policerait /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/ |
policerions /pɔ.li.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
policeriez /pɔ.li.sə.ʁje/ |
policeraient /pɔ.li.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | police /pɔ.lis/ |
polices /pɔ.lis/ |
police /pɔ.lis/ |
policions /pɔ.li.sjɔ̃/ |
policiez /pɔ.li.sje/ |
policent /pɔ.lis/ |
| imperfect2 | poliçasse /pɔ.li.sas/ |
poliçasses /pɔ.li.sas/ |
poliçât /pɔ.li.sa/ |
poliçassions /pɔ.li.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
poliçassiez /pɔ.li.sa.sje/ |
poliçassent /pɔ.li.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | police /pɔ.lis/ |
— | poliçons /pɔ.li.sɔ̃/ |
policez /pɔ.li.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “policer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.