sympathiser

English

Etymology

From sympathise +‎ -er.

Noun

sympathiser (plural sympathisers)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathizer.
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 13”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     ‘ […] And I tell you that the slightest suspicion of my loyalty could be ruin for me, ruin! If it were ever breathed that I were even a sympathiser with this rebellion, there iss an end of me.’

   • 2013, Nadeem Aslam, chapter 4, in The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber:

     The Ardent Spirit pupils now belong to him alone and through them he’ll set his plans in motion, moulding them to be warrior saints, brilliant in deceit against the West and its sympathisers here at home.

French

Etymology

From sympathie +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/

• Audio:

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Verb

sympathiser

1. to hit it off

   Synonym: fraterniser

Conjugation

Conjugation of sympathiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sympathiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sympathisant /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sympathisé /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/	sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/	sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/
	imperfect	sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisais /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisait /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/	sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/	sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/	sympathisaient /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	sympathisai /sɛ̃.pa.ti.ze/	sympathisas /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisa /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisâmes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zam/	sympathisâtes /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zat/	sympathisèrent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	sympathiserai /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/	sympathiseras /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/	sympathisera /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁa/	sympathiserons /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	sympathiserez /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁe/	sympathiseront /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserais /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserait /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.ʁɛ/	sympathiserions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	sympathiseriez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zə.ʁje/	sympathiseraient /sɛ̃.pa.tiz.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	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathises /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	sympathisions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zjɔ̃/	sympathisiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zje/	sympathisent /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/
	imperfect2	sympathisasse /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/	sympathisasses /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/	sympathisât /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za/	sympathisassions /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	sympathisassiez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.za.sje/	sympathisassent /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sympathise /sɛ̃.pa.tiz/	—	sympathisons /sɛ̃.pa.ti.zɔ̃/	sympathisez /sɛ̃.pa.ti.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).

Derived terms

• sympathisant

Further reading

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