constituer
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin cōnstituō.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editconstituer
- to constitute
- to make up
- (reflexive) to build up
Conjugation
editConjugation of constituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | constituer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | constituant /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | constitué /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constitues /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constituons /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/ |
constituez /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ |
constituent /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
| imperfect | constituais /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
constituais /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
constituait /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
constituions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/ |
constituiez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/ |
constituaient /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | constituai /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ |
constituas /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
constitua /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
constituâmes /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥam/ |
constituâtes /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥat/ |
constituèrent /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | constituerai /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/ |
constitueras /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/ |
constituera /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/ |
constituerons /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
constituerez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/ |
constitueront /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | constituerais /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
constituerais /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
constituerait /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
constituerions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
constitueriez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁje/ |
constitueraient /kɔ̃s.ti.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 | constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constitues /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
constituions /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/ |
constituiez /kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/ |
constituent /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
| imperfect2 | constituasse /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ |
constituasses /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ |
constituât /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
constituassions /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
constituassiez /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sje/ |
constituassent /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | constitue /kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
— | constituons /kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/ |
constituez /kɔ̃s.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “constituer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.