instaurer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnstaurāre. Compare the inherited Old French estorer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe/

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Verb

instaurer

1. to set up; to establish

Conjugation

Conjugation of instaurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instaurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instaurant /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		instauré /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	instaure /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaures /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaure /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaurons /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɔ̃/	instaurez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe/	instaurent /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/
	imperfect	instaurais /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɛ/	instaurais /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɛ/	instaurait /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɛ/	instaurions /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	instauriez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁje/	instauraient /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	instaurai /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe/	instauras /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁa/	instaura /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁa/	instaurâmes /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁam/	instaurâtes /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁat/	instaurèrent /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	instaurerai /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	instaureras /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	instaurera /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	instaurerons /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	instaurerez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	instaureront /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instaurerais /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	instaurerais /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	instaurerait /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	instaurerions /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	instaureriez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	instaureraient /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁə.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	instaure /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaures /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaure /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	instaurions /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	instauriez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁje/	instaurent /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/
	imperfect2	instaurasse /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁas/	instaurasses /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁas/	instaurât /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁa/	instaurassions /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	instaurassiez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁa.sje/	instaurassent /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	instaure /ɛ̃s.tɔʁ/	—	instaurons /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁɔ̃/	instaurez /ɛ̃s.tɔ.ʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

īnstaurer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnstaurō