usiner

French

Etymology

usine +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zi.ne/

Verb

usiner

1. (transitive) to machine
2. (transitive) to manufacture (using machinery)

Conjugation

Conjugation of usiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	usiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	usinant /y.zi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		usiné /y.zi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	usine /y.zin/	usines /y.zin/	usine /y.zin/	usinons /y.zi.nɔ̃/	usinez /y.zi.ne/	usinent /y.zin/
	imperfect	usinais /y.zi.nɛ/	usinais /y.zi.nɛ/	usinait /y.zi.nɛ/	usinions /y.zi.njɔ̃/	usiniez /y.zi.nje/	usinaient /y.zi.nɛ/
	past historic2	usinai /y.zi.ne/	usinas /y.zi.na/	usina /y.zi.na/	usinâmes /y.zi.nam/	usinâtes /y.zi.nat/	usinèrent /y.zi.nɛʁ/
	future	usinerai /y.zin.ʁe/	usineras /y.zin.ʁa/	usinera /y.zin.ʁa/	usinerons /y.zin.ʁɔ̃/	usinerez /y.zin.ʁe/	usineront /y.zin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	usinerais /y.zin.ʁɛ/	usinerais /y.zin.ʁɛ/	usinerait /y.zin.ʁɛ/	usinerions /y.zi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	usineriez /y.zi.nə.ʁje/	usineraient /y.zin.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	usine /y.zin/	usines /y.zin/	usine /y.zin/	usinions /y.zi.njɔ̃/	usiniez /y.zi.nje/	usinent /y.zin/
	imperfect2	usinasse /y.zi.nas/	usinasses /y.zi.nas/	usinât /y.zi.na/	usinassions /y.zi.na.sjɔ̃/	usinassiez /y.zi.na.sje/	usinassent /y.zi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	usine /y.zin/	—	usinons /y.zi.nɔ̃/	usinez /y.zi.ne/	—
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

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