doser

English

Etymology

From dose +‎ -er.

Noun

doser (plural dosers)

1. One who administers a dose.

Anagrams

• -serod, DEROS, ReDoS, Sedor, Soder, deros, doers, dorse, ordes, redos, resod, rodes, rosed, soder, sored

French

Etymology

From dose +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.ze/

• Audio:

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Verb

doser

1. to dose (administer a dose)
2. (figuratively) to dish out

Conjugation

Conjugation of doser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	doser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dosant /do.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dosé /do.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dose /doz/	doses /doz/	dose /doz/	dosons /do.zɔ̃/	dosez /do.ze/	dosent /doz/
	imperfect	dosais /do.zɛ/	dosais /do.zɛ/	dosait /do.zɛ/	dosions /do.zjɔ̃/	dosiez /do.zje/	dosaient /do.zɛ/
	past historic2	dosai /do.ze/	dosas /do.za/	dosa /do.za/	dosâmes /do.zam/	dosâtes /do.zat/	dosèrent /do.zɛʁ/
	future	doserai /doz.ʁe/	doseras /doz.ʁa/	dosera /doz.ʁa/	doserons /doz.ʁɔ̃/	doserez /doz.ʁe/	doseront /doz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	doserais /doz.ʁɛ/	doserais /doz.ʁɛ/	doserait /doz.ʁɛ/	doserions /do.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	doseriez /do.zə.ʁje/	doseraient /doz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dose /doz/	doses /doz/	dose /doz/	dosions /do.zjɔ̃/	dosiez /do.zje/	dosent /doz/
	imperfect2	dosasse /do.zas/	dosasses /do.zas/	dosât /do.za/	dosassions /do.za.sjɔ̃/	dosassiez /do.za.sje/	dosassent /do.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dose /doz/	—	dosons /do.zɔ̃/	dosez /do.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• dosage

Descendants

• → German: dosieren

Further reading

• “doser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dores, dorés, rodes, rôdes

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

doser m

1. indefinite plural of dose

Swedish

Noun

doser

1. indefinite plural of dos