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
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).