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utiliser
utiliser
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.ti.li.ze/
Etymology
From Italian utilizzare.
Verb
utiliser
Conjugation
Conjugation of utiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | utiliser | avoir utilisé | |||||
| gerund | en utilisant | en ayant utilisé | |||||
| present participle | utilisant /y.ti.li.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | utilisé /y.ti.li.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | utilise /y.ti.liz/ |
utilises /y.ti.liz/ |
utilise /y.ti.liz/ |
utilisons /y.ti.li.zɔ̃/ |
utilisez /y.ti.li.ze/ |
utilisent /y.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect | utilisais /y.ti.li.zɛ/ |
utilisais /y.ti.li.zɛ/ |
utilisait /y.ti.li.zɛ/ |
utilisions /y.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ |
utilisiez /y.ti.li.zje/ |
utilisaient /y.ti.li.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | utilisai /y.ti.li.ze/ |
utilisas /y.ti.li.za/ |
utilisa /y.ti.li.za/ |
utilisâmes /y.ti.li.zam/ |
utilisâtes /y.ti.li.zat/ |
utilisèrent /y.ti.li.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | utiliserai /y.ti.liz.ʁe/ |
utiliseras /y.ti.liz.ʁa/ |
utilisera /y.ti.liz.ʁa/ |
utiliserons /y.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
utiliserez /y.ti.liz.ʁe/ |
utiliseront /y.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | utiliserais /y.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
utiliserais /y.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
utiliserait /y.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
utiliserions /y.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
utiliseriez /y.ti.li.zə.ʁje/ |
utiliseraient /y.ti.liz.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | utilise /y.ti.liz/ |
utilises /y.ti.liz/ |
utilise /y.ti.liz/ |
utilisions /y.ti.li.zjɔ̃/ |
utilisiez /y.ti.li.zje/ |
utilisent /y.ti.liz/ |
| imperfect1 |
utilisasse /y.ti.li.zas/ |
utilisasses /y.ti.li.zas/ |
utilisât /y.ti.li.za/ |
utilisassions /y.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/ |
utilisassiez /y.ti.li.za.sje/ |
utilisassent /y.ti.li.zas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | utilise /y.ti.liz/ |
— | utilisons /y.ti.li.zɔ̃/ |
utilisez /y.ti.li.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||