subtiliser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /syp.ti.li.ze/
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Verb
subtiliser
- (transitive, colloquial) to snatch; take possession of
- subtiliser la montre à l'homme ― snatch the watch off the man
- 2024 June 1, Roxana Azimi, “L’affaire Deborah de Robertis divise le monde de l’art”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Pendant que deux complices taguaient cinq œuvres du slogan « #metoo » , dont L’Origine du Monde – protégée par une vitre –, l’artiste subtilisait une broderie d’Annette Messager, portant l’inscription « Je pense donc je suce ».
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive, dated) synonym of volatiliser
Conjugation
Conjugation of subtiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | subtiliser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | subtilisant /syp.ti.li.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | subtilisé /syp.ti.li.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilises /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilisons /syp.ti.li.zɔ̃/ |
subtilisez /syp.ti.li.ze/ |
subtilisent /syp.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect | subtilisais /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ |
subtilisais /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ |
subtilisait /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ |
subtilisions /syp.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ |
subtilisiez /syp.ti.li.zje/ |
subtilisaient /syp.ti.li.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | subtilisai /syp.ti.li.ze/ |
subtilisas /syp.ti.li.za/ |
subtilisa /syp.ti.li.za/ |
subtilisâmes /syp.ti.li.zam/ |
subtilisâtes /syp.ti.li.zat/ |
subtilisèrent /syp.ti.li.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | subtiliserai /syp.ti.liz.ʁe/ |
subtiliseras /syp.ti.liz.ʁa/ |
subtilisera /syp.ti.liz.ʁa/ |
subtiliserons /syp.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
subtiliserez /syp.ti.liz.ʁe/ |
subtiliseront /syp.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | subtiliserais /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
subtiliserais /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
subtiliserait /syp.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
subtiliserions /syp.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
subtiliseriez /syp.ti.li.zə.ʁje/ |
subtiliseraient /syp.ti.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 | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilises /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ |
subtilisions /syp.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ |
subtilisiez /syp.ti.li.zje/ |
subtilisent /syp.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect2 | subtilisasse /syp.ti.li.zas/ |
subtilisasses /syp.ti.li.zas/ |
subtilisât /syp.ti.li.za/ |
subtilisassions /syp.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/ |
subtilisassiez /syp.ti.li.za.sje/ |
subtilisassent /syp.ti.li.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | subtilise /syp.ti.liz/ |
— | subtilisons /syp.ti.li.zɔ̃/ |
subtilisez /syp.ti.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “subtiliser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.