économiser

See also: economiser

French

Etymology

From économie +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/

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Verb

économiser

1. to economise (to conserve money)

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	économiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	économisant /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		économisé /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	économise /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économises /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économise /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économisons /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɔ̃/	économisez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/	économisent /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/
	imperfect	économisais /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɛ/	économisais /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɛ/	économisait /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɛ/	économisions /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zjɔ̃/	économisiez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zje/	économisaient /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɛ/
	past historic2	économisai /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.ze/	économisas /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.za/	économisa /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.za/	économisâmes /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zam/	économisâtes /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zat/	économisèrent /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɛʁ/
	future	économiserai /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁe/	économiseras /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁa/	économisera /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁa/	économiserons /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁɔ̃/	économiserez /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁe/	économiseront /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	économiserais /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	économiserais /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	économiserait /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.ʁɛ/	économiserions /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	économiseriez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zə.ʁje/	économiseraient /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz.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	économise /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économises /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économise /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	économisions /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zjɔ̃/	économisiez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zje/	économisent /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/
	imperfect2	économisasse /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zas/	économisasses /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zas/	économisât /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.za/	économisassions /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.za.sjɔ̃/	économisassiez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.za.sje/	économisassent /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	économise /e.kɔ.nɔ.miz/	—	économisons /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.zɔ̃/	économisez /e.kɔ.nɔ.mi.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).

Conjugation of économiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Further reading

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