substituer

French

Etymology

From Latin substituō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syp.sti.tɥe/

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Verb

substituer

1. to substitute

Conjugation

Conjugation of substituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	substituer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	substituant /syp.sti.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		substitué /syp.sti.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	substitue /syp.sti.ty/	substitues /syp.sti.ty/	substitue /syp.sti.ty/	substituons /syp.sti.tɥɔ̃/	substituez /syp.sti.tɥe/	substituent /syp.sti.ty/
	imperfect	substituais /syp.sti.tɥɛ/	substituais /syp.sti.tɥɛ/	substituait /syp.sti.tɥɛ/	substituions /syp.sti.ty.jɔ̃/	substituiez /syp.sti.ty.je/	substituaient /syp.sti.tɥɛ/
	past historic2	substituai /syp.sti.tɥe/	substituas /syp.sti.tɥa/	substitua /syp.sti.tɥa/	substituâmes /syp.sti.tɥam/	substituâtes /syp.sti.tɥat/	substituèrent /syp.sti.tɥɛʁ/
	future	substituerai /syp.sti.ty.ʁe/	substitueras /syp.sti.ty.ʁa/	substituera /syp.sti.ty.ʁa/	substituerons /syp.sti.ty.ʁɔ̃/	substituerez /syp.sti.ty.ʁe/	substitueront /syp.sti.ty.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	substituerais /syp.sti.ty.ʁɛ/	substituerais /syp.sti.ty.ʁɛ/	substituerait /syp.sti.ty.ʁɛ/	substituerions /syp.sti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	substitueriez /syp.sti.ty.ʁje/	substitueraient /syp.sti.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	substitue /syp.sti.ty/	substitues /syp.sti.ty/	substitue /syp.sti.ty/	substituions /syp.sti.ty.jɔ̃/	substituiez /syp.sti.ty.je/	substituent /syp.sti.ty/
	imperfect2	substituasse /syp.sti.tɥas/	substituasses /syp.sti.tɥas/	substituât /syp.sti.tɥa/	substituassions /syp.sti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/	substituassiez /syp.sti.tɥa.sje/	substituassent /syp.sti.tɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	substitue /syp.sti.ty/	—	substituons /syp.sti.tɥɔ̃/	substituez /syp.sti.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).

Related terms

• substitut
• substitution

Further reading

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