planifier

French

Etymology

From plan +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.ni.fje/

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• Homophones: planifiai, planifié, planifiée, planifiées, planifiés, planifiez

Verb

planifier

1. to plan ahead, to prepare oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of planifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	planifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	planifiant /pla.ni.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		planifié /pla.ni.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	planifie /pla.ni.fi/	planifies /pla.ni.fi/	planifie /pla.ni.fi/	planifions /pla.ni.fjɔ̃/	planifiez /pla.ni.fje/	planifient /pla.ni.fi/
	imperfect	planifiais /pla.ni.fjɛ/	planifiais /pla.ni.fjɛ/	planifiait /pla.ni.fjɛ/	planifiions /pla.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	planifiiez /pla.ni.fi.je/	planifiaient /pla.ni.fjɛ/
	past historic2	planifiai /pla.ni.fje/	planifias /pla.ni.fja/	planifia /pla.ni.fja/	planifiâmes /pla.ni.fjam/	planifiâtes /pla.ni.fjat/	planifièrent /pla.ni.fjɛʁ/
	future	planifierai /pla.ni.fi.ʁe/	planifieras /pla.ni.fi.ʁa/	planifiera /pla.ni.fi.ʁa/	planifierons /pla.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/	planifierez /pla.ni.fi.ʁe/	planifieront /pla.ni.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	planifierais /pla.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	planifierais /pla.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	planifierait /pla.ni.fi.ʁɛ/	planifierions /pla.ni.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	planifieriez /pla.ni.fi.ʁje/	planifieraient /pla.ni.fi.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	planifie /pla.ni.fi/	planifies /pla.ni.fi/	planifie /pla.ni.fi/	planifiions /pla.ni.fi.jɔ̃/	planifiiez /pla.ni.fi.je/	planifient /pla.ni.fi/
	imperfect2	planifiasse /pla.ni.fjas/	planifiasses /pla.ni.fjas/	planifiât /pla.ni.fja/	planifiassions /pla.ni.fja.sjɔ̃/	planifiassiez /pla.ni.fja.sje/	planifiassent /pla.ni.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	planifie /pla.ni.fi/	—	planifions /pla.ni.fjɔ̃/	planifiez /pla.ni.fje/	—
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

• économie planifiée
• planification

Further reading

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