bêtiser

French

Etymology

From bêtise +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ.ti.ze/ ~ /be.ti.ze/

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Verb

bêtiser

1. to talk nonsense

Conjugation

Conjugation of bêtiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bêtiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bêtisant /bɛ.ti.zɑ̃/ or /be.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bêtisé /bɛ.ti.ze/ or /be.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bêtise /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtises /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtise /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtisons /bɛ.ti.zɔ̃/ or /be.ti.zɔ̃/	bêtisez /bɛ.ti.ze/ or /be.ti.ze/	bêtisent /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/
	imperfect	bêtisais /bɛ.ti.zɛ/ or /be.ti.zɛ/	bêtisais /bɛ.ti.zɛ/ or /be.ti.zɛ/	bêtisait /bɛ.ti.zɛ/ or /be.ti.zɛ/	bêtisions /bɛ.ti.zjɔ̃/ or /be.ti.zjɔ̃/	bêtisiez /bɛ.ti.zje/ or /be.ti.zje/	bêtisaient /bɛ.ti.zɛ/ or /be.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	bêtisai /bɛ.ti.ze/ or /be.ti.ze/	bêtisas /bɛ.ti.za/ or /be.ti.za/	bêtisa /bɛ.ti.za/ or /be.ti.za/	bêtisâmes /bɛ.ti.zam/ or /be.ti.zam/	bêtisâtes /bɛ.ti.zat/ or /be.ti.zat/	bêtisèrent /bɛ.ti.zɛʁ/ or /be.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	bêtiserai /bɛ.tiz.ʁe/ or /be.tiz.ʁe/	bêtiseras /bɛ.tiz.ʁa/ or /be.tiz.ʁa/	bêtisera /bɛ.tiz.ʁa/ or /be.tiz.ʁa/	bêtiserons /bɛ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ or /be.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	bêtiserez /bɛ.tiz.ʁe/ or /be.tiz.ʁe/	bêtiseront /bɛ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ or /be.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bêtiserais /bɛ.tiz.ʁɛ/ or /be.tiz.ʁɛ/	bêtiserais /bɛ.tiz.ʁɛ/ or /be.tiz.ʁɛ/	bêtiserait /bɛ.tiz.ʁɛ/ or /be.tiz.ʁɛ/	bêtiserions /bɛ.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /be.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	bêtiseriez /bɛ.ti.zə.ʁje/ or /be.ti.zə.ʁje/	bêtiseraient /bɛ.tiz.ʁɛ/ or /be.tiz.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	bêtise /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtises /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtise /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	bêtisions /bɛ.ti.zjɔ̃/ or /be.ti.zjɔ̃/	bêtisiez /bɛ.ti.zje/ or /be.ti.zje/	bêtisent /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/
	imperfect2	bêtisasse /bɛ.ti.zas/ or /be.ti.zas/	bêtisasses /bɛ.ti.zas/ or /be.ti.zas/	bêtisât /bɛ.ti.za/ or /be.ti.za/	bêtisassions /bɛ.ti.za.sjɔ̃/ or /be.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	bêtisassiez /bɛ.ti.za.sje/ or /be.ti.za.sje/	bêtisassent /bɛ.ti.zas/ or /be.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bêtise /bɛ.tiz/ or /be.tiz/	—	bêtisons /bɛ.ti.zɔ̃/ or /be.ti.zɔ̃/	bêtisez /bɛ.ti.ze/ or /be.ti.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).

Further reading

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