diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index dac0669f1..d7eccb9fe 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from ..sv import Swedish
 from ..hu import Hungarian
 from ..tokens import Doc
 from ..strings import StringStore
+from ..lemmatizer import Lemmatizer
 from ..attrs import ORTH, TAG, HEAD, DEP
 from ..util import match_best_version, get_data_path
 
@@ -66,6 +67,14 @@ def en_entityrecognizer():
      return English.Defaults.create_entity()
 
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def lemmatizer(path):
+    if path is not None:
+        return Lemmatizer.load(path)
+    else:
+        return None
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def text_file():
     return StringIO()