induire

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indūcere, present active infinitive of indūcō (or altered from the Old French form enduire). Compare the inherited doublet enduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɥiʁ/

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Verb

induire

1. to induce, to cause

Conjugation

Conjugation of induire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	induire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	induisant /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		induit /ɛ̃.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	induis /ɛ̃.dɥi/	induis /ɛ̃.dɥi/	induit /ɛ̃.dɥi/	induisons /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	induisez /ɛ̃.dɥi.ze/	induisent /ɛ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect	induisais /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	induisais /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	induisait /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	induisions /ɛ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	induisiez /ɛ̃.dɥi.zje/	induisaient /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	induisis /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi/	induisis /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi/	induisit /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi/	induisîmes /ɛ̃.dɥi.zim/	induisîtes /ɛ̃.dɥi.zit/	induisirent /ɛ̃.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	induirai /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	induiras /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	induira /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	induirons /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	induirez /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	induiront /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	induirais /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	induirais /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	induirait /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	induirions /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	induiriez /ɛ̃.dɥi.ʁje/	induiraient /ɛ̃.dɥi.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	induise /ɛ̃.dɥiz/	induises /ɛ̃.dɥiz/	induise /ɛ̃.dɥiz/	induisions /ɛ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	induisiez /ɛ̃.dɥi.zje/	induisent /ɛ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	induisisse /ɛ̃.dɥi.zis/	induisisses /ɛ̃.dɥi.zis/	induisît /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi/	induisissions /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	induisissiez /ɛ̃.dɥi.zi.sje/	induisissent /ɛ̃.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	induis /ɛ̃.dɥi/	—	induisons /ɛ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	induisez /ɛ̃.dɥi.ze/	—
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).

Related terms

• induction

Further reading

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