inutiliser

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ utiliser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ny.ti.li.ze/

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Verb

inutiliser

1. to make unusable

Conjugation

Conjugation of inutiliser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inutiliser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inutilisant /i.ny.ti.li.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inutilisé /i.ny.ti.li.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inutilise /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilises /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilise /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilisons /i.ny.ti.li.zɔ̃/	inutilisez /i.ny.ti.li.ze/	inutilisent /i.ny.ti.liz/
	imperfect	inutilisais /i.ny.ti.li.zɛ/	inutilisais /i.ny.ti.li.zɛ/	inutilisait /i.ny.ti.li.zɛ/	inutilisions /i.ny.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	inutilisiez /i.ny.ti.li.zje/	inutilisaient /i.ny.ti.li.zɛ/
	past historic2	inutilisai /i.ny.ti.li.ze/	inutilisas /i.ny.ti.li.za/	inutilisa /i.ny.ti.li.za/	inutilisâmes /i.ny.ti.li.zam/	inutilisâtes /i.ny.ti.li.zat/	inutilisèrent /i.ny.ti.li.zɛʁ/
	future	inutiliserai /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁe/	inutiliseras /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁa/	inutilisera /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁa/	inutiliserons /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/	inutiliserez /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁe/	inutiliseront /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inutiliserais /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	inutiliserais /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	inutiliserait /i.ny.ti.liz.ʁɛ/	inutiliserions /i.ny.ti.li.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	inutiliseriez /i.ny.ti.li.zə.ʁje/	inutiliseraient /i.ny.ti.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	inutilise /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilises /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilise /i.ny.ti.liz/	inutilisions /i.ny.ti.li.zjɔ̃/	inutilisiez /i.ny.ti.li.zje/	inutilisent /i.ny.ti.liz/
	imperfect2	inutilisasse /i.ny.ti.li.zas/	inutilisasses /i.ny.ti.li.zas/	inutilisât /i.ny.ti.li.za/	inutilisassions /i.ny.ti.li.za.sjɔ̃/	inutilisassiez /i.ny.ti.li.za.sje/	inutilisassent /i.ny.ti.li.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inutilise /i.ny.ti.liz/	—	inutilisons /i.ny.ti.li.zɔ̃/	inutilisez /i.ny.ti.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).

Further reading

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