colonise
French, verb
colonise is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-E (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colonise is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, colonisé is a different word: “past participle of coloniser”.
What does colonise mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of coloniser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a été colonisé, est devenu une colonie.
noun: 1. Personne ayant assimilé et intégré une vision d'elle-même selon laquelle son groupe ethnique ou national est inférieur à un autre en particulier, ou aux autres en général.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of colonise
- colonisée feminine
- colonisés masculine plural
- colonisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is colonise in French?
colonise appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).