constituer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnstituō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/

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Verb

constituer

1. to constitute
2. to make up
3. (reflexive) to build up

Conjugation

Conjugation of constituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	constituer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	constituant /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		constitué /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constitues /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constituons /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/	constituez /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/	constituent /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/
	imperfect	constituais /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	constituais /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	constituait /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/	constituions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	constituiez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/	constituaient /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/
	past historic2	constituai /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/	constituas /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/	constitua /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/	constituâmes /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥam/	constituâtes /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥat/	constituèrent /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛʁ/
	future	constituerai /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/	constitueras /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/	constituera /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/	constituerons /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/	constituerez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/	constitueront /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	constituerais /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	constituerais /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	constituerait /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	constituerions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	constitueriez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁje/	constitueraient /kɔ̃s.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	constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constitues /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	constituions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	constituiez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/	constituent /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/
	imperfect2	constituasse /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/	constituasses /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/	constituât /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/	constituassions /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/	constituassiez /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sje/	constituassent /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/	—	constituons /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/	constituez /kɔ̃s.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

• constitution

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• construite
• courtisent