How to translate the horrible word "prioritise" into French?

[Nighbynight]

cant find it in my favourite online dictionaries. anyone please??

hiérarchiser

Might depend on context, though.

thank you anna!
p r i o r i t i s e c o n n e c t i o n s

sounds just as bad in french as in english lol

Mettre en avant?

this is where my schoolgirl french, though grammatically thorough, is completely inadequate. Mettre en avant sounds better to my ears.
Do not wish to cause gales of laughter from the official tranlator in due course.

Can you give me the whole sentence?

That is the whole sentence!
It is labels in a software application.

I have others, but dont want them to be googleable, as it is a high profile product.

favoriser vos connexions?

commencer en priorite par vos connections?

Yes can you give the whole sentence?

I have now opened my dictionary, which gives "donner la priorité à" for "prioritize".

Ahhhhhhhhhh! computer connections!

Sorry am not really techno savvy

donner priorite aux connections?

thank you!

trouble is, teh english version uses "prioritise the connections" to mean manipulating a list of connections with your favourite one at the top.

I will use a mixture of terms, depending on the sentence I think.

then you should say "ordonner les connections" that would be prioritise used as in "put in order"

You couls also say hierarchiser les connections as Anna suggested

Yes, after this conversation I would probably conclude with my original suggestion.

yup, Ive got that in now, as well as donner la priorité in the same set of instructions....reads better now, many thanks.

Cop out response:
the neologism has apparently crossed to French, and you can say "prioritisation", so if you want it to sound as horrible in French as in English, you could use that term.
See "Sans compter qu?avec la prioritisation du trafic réseau et la bande passante élevée disponible transférer une vidéo de 60 minutes prend rarement plus d'une seconde !" here
and "prioritisation des flux" here.

does that mean that prioritiser is now a french verb??

If it's a product for technical people you can definitely get away with prioritiser.
DH is in IT and it cracks me up listening him talk to his colleagues: it's all 'downloader' instead of 'télécharger'.

Don't know about for the mass market though.

Non.

Only according to these idiots. Don't think l'Académie française would agree, and this bunch don't either, nor do most dictionaries I've skimmed.

Depends on your aim; if I was translating something geeky/boffiny for that target audience and needed a punchy, short translation for a title, etc., I'd maybe be tempted to use it. Otherwise probably best avoided!

Cross-posted with OSOTC!

no, its potentially for the public.

know what you mean, I can happily say to my colleagues, "ich hab's gerade downgeloadet" and everyones happy.

Don't knock it Nighbynight...in my former life when I was an analyst programmer I found it so much easier to deal with German clients than French for that precise reason! I think 'hiérarchiser' sounds better, although I have heard both...