canaliser
French, verb/ka.na.li.ze/
canaliser is a French verb meaning “to channel; to canalise (to direct the flow)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre un cours d’eau navigable”.
What does canaliser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to channel; to canalise (to direct the flow)
- 2
to canalise (to render into a canal)
- 3
to channel (to direct one's efforts)
canaliser son énergie
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre un cours d’eau navigable. 2. Sillonner un pays de canaux. 3. Transporter à distance l’eau, le gaz, l’électricité. 4. Concentrer, empêcher la dispersion, restreindre en suivant une direction précise.
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 canaliser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- canalisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canalisé participle past
- canalise first-person indicative present
- canalises indicative present second-person
- canalisons first-person indicative plural
- canalisez indicative plural present
- canalisent indicative plural present
- canalisais first-person imperfect indicative
- canalisait imperfect indicative singular
- canalisions first-person imperfect indicative
- canalisiez imperfect indicative plural
- canalisaient imperfect indicative plural
- canalisai first-person historic indicative
- canalisas historic indicative past
- canalisa historic indicative past
- canalisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canaliser?
- /ka.na.li.ze/
- \ka.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 canaliser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is canaliser in French?
canaliser appears 1.3 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).