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nationaliser

French, verb\na.sjɔ.na.li.ze\

nationaliser is spelled N-A-T-I-O-N-A-L-I-S-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,838th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nationaliser is a French verb meaning “to nationalize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre national”.

What does nationaliser mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to nationalize

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Rendre national. 2. Opération financière consistant en l’acquisition par une entité publique de la majorité des actions d’une entreprise privée.

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 nationaliser

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • nationalisant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • nationalisé participle past
  • nationalise first-person indicative present
  • nationalises indicative present second-person
  • nationalisons first-person indicative plural
  • nationalisez indicative plural present
  • nationalisent indicative plural present
  • nationalisais first-person imperfect indicative
  • nationalisait imperfect indicative singular
  • nationalisions first-person imperfect indicative
  • nationalisiez imperfect indicative plural
  • nationalisaient imperfect indicative plural
  • nationalisai first-person historic indicative
  • nationalisas historic indicative past
  • nationalisa historic indicative past
  • nationalisâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce nationaliser?

  • \na.sjɔ.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 nationaliser

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is nationaliser in French?

nationaliser appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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