grammaticaliser
French, verb/ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.ze/
grammaticaliser is spelled G-R-A-M-M-A-T-I-C-A-L-I-S-E-R (15 letters). Grammaticaliser is a French verb meaning “to grammaticalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un caractère d’unité grammaticale”.
What does grammaticaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grammaticalize
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner un caractère d’unité grammaticale.
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 grammaticaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grammaticalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grammaticalisé participle past
- grammaticalise first-person indicative present
- grammaticalises indicative present second-person
- grammaticalisons first-person indicative plural
- grammaticalisez indicative plural present
- grammaticalisent indicative plural present
- grammaticalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- grammaticalisait imperfect indicative singular
- grammaticalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- grammaticalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- grammaticalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- grammaticalisai first-person historic indicative
- grammaticalisas historic indicative past
- grammaticalisa historic indicative past
- grammaticalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grammaticaliser?
- /ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.ze/
- /ɡʁam.ma.ti.ka.li.ze/
- \ɡʁa.ma.ti.ka.li.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.