illustrer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin illūstrāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.lys.tʁe/
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Verb
illustrer
- to illustrate
Conjugation
Conjugation of illustrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | illustrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | illustrant /i.lys.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | illustré /i.lys.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | illustre /i.lystʁ/ |
illustres /i.lystʁ/ |
illustre /i.lystʁ/ |
illustrons /i.lys.tʁɔ̃/ |
illustrez /i.lys.tʁe/ |
illustrent /i.lystʁ/ |
| imperfect | illustrais /i.lys.tʁɛ/ |
illustrais /i.lys.tʁɛ/ |
illustrait /i.lys.tʁɛ/ |
illustrions /i.lys.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
illustriez /i.lys.tʁi.je/ |
illustraient /i.lys.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | illustrai /i.lys.tʁe/ |
illustras /i.lys.tʁa/ |
illustra /i.lys.tʁa/ |
illustrâmes /i.lys.tʁam/ |
illustrâtes /i.lys.tʁat/ |
illustrèrent /i.lys.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | illustrerai /i.lys.tʁə.ʁe/ |
illustreras /i.lys.tʁə.ʁa/ |
illustrera /i.lys.tʁə.ʁa/ |
illustrerons /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
illustrerez /i.lys.tʁə.ʁe/ |
illustreront /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | illustrerais /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
illustrerais /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
illustrerait /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
illustrerions /i.lys.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
illustreriez /i.lys.tʁə.ʁje/ |
illustreraient /i.lys.tʁə.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 | illustre /i.lystʁ/ |
illustres /i.lystʁ/ |
illustre /i.lystʁ/ |
illustrions /i.lys.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
illustriez /i.lys.tʁi.je/ |
illustrent /i.lystʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | illustrasse /i.lys.tʁas/ |
illustrasses /i.lys.tʁas/ |
illustrât /i.lys.tʁa/ |
illustrassions /i.lys.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
illustrassiez /i.lys.tʁa.sje/ |
illustrassent /i.lys.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | illustre /i.lystʁ/ |
— | illustrons /i.lys.tʁɔ̃/ |
illustrez /i.lys.tʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “illustrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
illūstrer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of illūstrō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
illustrer
- imperative of illustrere