hospitalise
French, verb
hospitalise is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, hospitalisé is a different word: “past participle of hospitaliser”.
What does hospitalise mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of hospitaliser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit d’une personne admise dans un hôpital, en qualité de malade.
noun: 1. Personne admise dans un hôpital, en qualité de malade.
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 hospitalise
- hospitalisée feminine
- hospitalisés masculine plural
- hospitalisées feminine plural
- ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\ singular masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hospitalise in French?
hospitalise appears 2.4 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).