finaliser
French, verb/fi.na.li.ze/
finaliser is spelled F-I-N-A-L-I-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Finaliser is a French verb meaning “to finalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assigner à quelque chose une finalité, un objectif”.
What does finaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to finalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assigner à quelque chose une finalité, un objectif. 2. Terminer une tâche administrative, un projet, etc. 3. Préparer un objet pour sa destruction finale. Le terme est utilisé dans le contexte de langages de programmation à objets comme Java, C++, Ada, etc. 4. Écrire sur un disque optique les données complémentaires tels que des menus, les données de répertoire, etc., pour qu’il soit lisible sur un système autre que celui sur lequel il a été enregistré.
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 finaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- finalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- finalisé participle past
- finalise first-person indicative present
- finalises indicative present second-person
- finalisons first-person indicative plural
- finalisez indicative plural present
- finalisent indicative plural present
- finalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- finalisait imperfect indicative singular
- finalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- finalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- finalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- finalisai first-person historic indicative
- finalisas historic indicative past
- finalisa historic indicative past
- finalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce finaliser?
- /fi.na.li.ze/
- \fi.na.li.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 finaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is finaliser in French?
finaliser appears 1.8 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).