instruire

See also: instruiré

French

Etymology

From Middle French instruire, from Old French (compare ), from Latin īnstruō, īnstruere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiʁ/

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Verb

instruire

1. to instruct, to teach

Conjugation

Conjugation of instruire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instruire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instruisant /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		instruit /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	instruis /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi/	instruis /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi/	instruit /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi/	instruisons /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɔ̃/	instruisez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ze/	instruisent /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz/
	imperfect	instruisais /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	instruisais /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	instruisait /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	instruisions /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zjɔ̃/	instruisiez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zje/	instruisaient /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	instruisis /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	instruisis /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	instruisit /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	instruisîmes /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zim/	instruisîtes /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zit/	instruisirent /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ziʁ/
	future	instruirai /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁe/	instruiras /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁa/	instruira /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁa/	instruirons /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɔ̃/	instruirez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁe/	instruiront /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instruirais /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	instruirais /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	instruirait /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	instruirions /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	instruiriez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁje/	instruiraient /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.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	instruise /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz/	instruises /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz/	instruise /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz/	instruisions /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zjɔ̃/	instruisiez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zje/	instruisent /ɛ̃s.tʁɥiz/
	imperfect2	instruisisse /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/	instruisisses /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/	instruisît /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	instruisissions /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	instruisissiez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zi.sje/	instruisissent /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	instruis /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi/	—	instruisons /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.zɔ̃/	instruisez /ɛ̃s.tʁɥi.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

• instructeur
• instruction
• instruit

 

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin īnstruō, īnstruere.

Verb

instruire

1. to teach; to train