instituer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnstituō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥe/

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Verb

instituer

1. (transitive) to institute
2. (transitive) to bring forth

Conjugation

Conjugation of instituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instituer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instituant /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		institué /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	institue /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	institues /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	institue /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	instituons /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/	instituez /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥe/	instituent /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/
	imperfect	instituais /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	instituais /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	instituait /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	instituions /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	instituiez /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.je/	instituaient /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/
	past historic2	instituai /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥe/	instituas /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥa/	institua /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥa/	instituâmes /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥam/	instituâtes /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥat/	instituèrent /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɛʁ/
	future	instituerai /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/	institueras /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/	instituera /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/	instituerons /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/	instituerez /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/	institueront /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instituerais /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	instituerais /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	instituerait /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	instituerions /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	institueriez /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.ʁje/	institueraient /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.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	institue /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	institues /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	institue /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	instituions /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	instituiez /ɛ̃s.ti.ty.je/	instituent /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/
	imperfect2	instituasse /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥas/	instituasses /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥas/	instituât /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥa/	instituassions /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/	instituassiez /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥa.sje/	instituassent /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	institue /ɛ̃s.ti.ty/	—	instituons /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/	instituez /ɛ̃s.ti.tɥe/	—
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

• institution

Related terms

• institut
• institutionnel

Further reading

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