instrumentaliser

French

Etymology

From instrumental +‎ -iser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/

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Verb

instrumentaliser

1. (transitive) to instrumentalize, to exploit, to use (for selfish gains)

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with instrumenter.

Conjugation

Conjugation of instrumentaliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	instrumentaliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	instrumentalisant /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		instrumentalisé /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	instrumentalise /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalises /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalise /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalisons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɔ̃/	instrumentalisez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/	instrumentalisent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/
	imperfect	instrumentalisais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɛ/	instrumentalisais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɛ/	instrumentalisait /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɛ/	instrumentalisions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	instrumentalisiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zje/	instrumentalisaient /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	instrumentalisai /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/	instrumentalisas /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.za/	instrumentalisa /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.za/	instrumentalisâmes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zam/	instrumentalisâtes /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zat/	instrumentalisèrent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɛʁ/
	future	instrumentaliserai /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁe/	instrumentaliseras /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁa/	instrumentalisera /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁa/	instrumentaliserons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/	instrumentaliserez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁe/	instrumentaliseront /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	instrumentaliserais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	instrumentaliserais /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	instrumentaliserait /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.ʁɛ/	instrumentaliserions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	instrumentaliseriez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zə.ʁje/	instrumentaliseraient /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz.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	instrumentalise /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalises /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalise /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	instrumentalisions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zjɔ̃/	instrumentalisiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zje/	instrumentalisent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/
	imperfect2	instrumentalisasse /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zas/	instrumentalisasses /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zas/	instrumentalisât /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.za/	instrumentalisassions /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.za.sjɔ̃/	instrumentalisassiez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.za.sje/	instrumentalisassent /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	instrumentalise /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.liz/	—	instrumentalisons /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.zɔ̃/	instrumentalisez /ɛ̃s.tʁy.mɑ̃.ta.li.ze/	—
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).

Derived terms

• instrumentalisation

Further reading

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