instrumenter

French

Etymology

instrument +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/

Verb

instrumenter

1. (transitive) to instrument, draw up
2. (transitive, music) to orchestrate

Conjugation

Conjugation of instrumenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instrumenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instrumentant /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		instrumenté /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	instrumente /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumentes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumente /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumentons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	instrumentez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/	instrumentent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	instrumentais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɛ/	instrumentais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɛ/	instrumentait /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɛ/	instrumentions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	instrumentiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tje/	instrumentaient /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	instrumentai /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/	instrumentas /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta/	instrumenta /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta/	instrumentâmes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tam/	instrumentâtes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tat/	instrumentèrent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	instrumenterai /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁe/	instrumenteras /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁa/	instrumentera /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁa/	instrumenterons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	instrumenterez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁe/	instrumenteront /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instrumenterais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	instrumenterais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	instrumenterait /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	instrumenterions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	instrumenteriez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	instrumenteraient /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	instrumente /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumentes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumente /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	instrumentions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	instrumentiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tje/	instrumentent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	instrumentasse /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tas/	instrumentasses /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tas/	instrumentât /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta/	instrumentassions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	instrumentassiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	instrumentassent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	instrumente /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃t/	—	instrumentons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	instrumentez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.te/	—
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

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

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Alternative forms

• instrument

Noun

instrumenter n

1. indefinite plural of instrument