coloniser
French, verb/kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/
coloniser is spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 30,103rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coloniser is a French verb meaning “to colonise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Peupler de colons”.
What does coloniser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to colonise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Peupler de colons. 2. Envahir.
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 coloniser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- colonisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- colonisé participle past
- colonise first-person indicative present
- colonises indicative present second-person
- colonisons first-person indicative plural
- colonisez indicative plural present
- colonisent indicative plural present
- colonisais first-person imperfect indicative
- colonisait imperfect indicative singular
- colonisions first-person imperfect indicative
- colonisiez imperfect indicative plural
- colonisaient imperfect indicative plural
- colonisai first-person historic indicative
- colonisas historic indicative past
- colonisa historic indicative past
- colonisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coloniser?
- /kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze/
- \kɔ.lɔ.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coloniser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coloniser in French?
coloniser appears 1.1 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).