priser
English
Noun
priser (plural prisers)
- A tool for prising something open.
- 1863, J. Pascoe, The Brigantine, page 263:
- "Well, then, here goes to shatter his timbers," said Grasper, with a lively tone; and seizing, as he spoke, a weighty crowbar from Dan, he assailed the door. […] "Here, Dan," said he, " bring another priser."
- Obsolete form of prizer.[1]
References
- “priser”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Danish
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁi.ze/
Etymology 1
Verbalization of prise, itself a deverbalization of prise, the feminine past participle of prendre (“to take”).
Verb
priser
Etymology 2
Inherited from Late Latin pretiāre, pretiō (“to appraise”), from Latin pretium (“price”). Unrelated to pris, the past participle of prendre, although it might be remotivated in that way by contemporary French speakers.
Verb
priser
Conjugation
Conjugation of priser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | priser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | prisant /pʁi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | prisé /pʁi.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | prise /pʁiz/ |
prises /pʁiz/ |
prise /pʁiz/ |
prisons /pʁi.zɔ̃/ |
prisez /pʁi.ze/ |
prisent /pʁiz/ |
| imperfect | prisais /pʁi.zɛ/ |
prisais /pʁi.zɛ/ |
prisait /pʁi.zɛ/ |
prisions /pʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
prisiez /pʁi.zje/ |
prisaient /pʁi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | prisai /pʁi.ze/ |
prisas /pʁi.za/ |
prisa /pʁi.za/ |
prisâmes /pʁi.zam/ |
prisâtes /pʁi.zat/ |
prisèrent /pʁi.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | priserai /pʁiz.ʁe/ |
priseras /pʁiz.ʁa/ |
prisera /pʁiz.ʁa/ |
priserons /pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
priserez /pʁiz.ʁe/ |
priseront /pʁiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | priserais /pʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
priserais /pʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
priserait /pʁiz.ʁɛ/ |
priserions /pʁi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
priseriez /pʁi.zə.ʁje/ |
priseraient /pʁiz.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 | prise /pʁiz/ |
prises /pʁiz/ |
prise /pʁiz/ |
prisions /pʁi.zjɔ̃/ |
prisiez /pʁi.zje/ |
prisent /pʁiz/ |
| imperfect2 | prisasse /pʁi.zas/ |
prisasses /pʁi.zas/ |
prisât /pʁi.za/ |
prisassions /pʁi.za.sjɔ̃/ |
prisassiez /pʁi.za.sje/ |
prisassent /pʁi.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | prise /pʁiz/ |
— | prisons /pʁi.zɔ̃/ |
prisez /pʁi.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “priser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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