apaiser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French apaisier, from paiz, pais (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛ.ze/ ~ /a.pe.ze/

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Verb

apaiser

1. (transitive) to mollify; to appease, pacify, calm

Conjugation

Conjugation of apaiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	apaiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	apaisant /a.pɛ.zɑ̃/ or /a.pe.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		apaisé /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	apaise /a.pɛz/	apaises /a.pɛz/	apaise /a.pɛz/	apaisons /a.pɛ.zɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zɔ̃/	apaisez /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/	apaisent /a.pɛz/
	imperfect	apaisais /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/	apaisais /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/	apaisait /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/	apaisions /a.pɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zjɔ̃/	apaisiez /a.pɛ.zje/ or /a.pe.zje/	apaisaient /a.pɛ.zɛ/ or /a.pe.zɛ/
	past historic2	apaisai /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.ze/	apaisas /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/	apaisa /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/	apaisâmes /a.pɛ.zam/ or /a.pe.zam/	apaisâtes /a.pɛ.zat/ or /a.pe.zat/	apaisèrent /a.pɛ.zɛʁ/ or /a.pe.zɛʁ/
	future	apaiserai /a.pɛz.ʁe/	apaiseras /a.pɛz.ʁa/	apaisera /a.pɛz.ʁa/	apaiserons /a.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/	apaiserez /a.pɛz.ʁe/	apaiseront /a.pɛz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	apaiserais /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/	apaiserais /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/	apaiserait /a.pɛz.ʁɛ/	apaiserions /a.pɛ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	apaiseriez /a.pɛ.zə.ʁje/ or /a.pe.zə.ʁje/	apaiseraient /a.pɛz.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	apaise /a.pɛz/	apaises /a.pɛz/	apaise /a.pɛz/	apaisions /a.pɛ.zjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zjɔ̃/	apaisiez /a.pɛ.zje/ or /a.pe.zje/	apaisent /a.pɛz/
	imperfect2	apaisasse /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/	apaisasses /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/	apaisât /a.pɛ.za/ or /a.pe.za/	apaisassions /a.pɛ.za.sjɔ̃/ or /a.pe.za.sjɔ̃/	apaisassiez /a.pɛ.za.sje/ or /a.pe.za.sje/	apaisassent /a.pɛ.zas/ or /a.pe.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	apaise /a.pɛz/	—	apaisons /a.pɛ.zɔ̃/ or /a.pe.zɔ̃/	apaisez /a.pɛ.ze/ or /a.pe.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).

Derived terms

• apaisable
• apaisant
• apaisement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• paieras, séparai