obstruer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstruere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

obstruer

1. to block off, to obstruct

Conjugation

Conjugation of obstruer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	obstruer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	obstruant /ɔp.stʁy.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		obstrué /ɔp.stʁy.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	obstrue /ɔp.stʁy/	obstrues /ɔp.stʁy/	obstrue /ɔp.stʁy/	obstruons /ɔp.stʁy.ɔ̃/	obstruez /ɔp.stʁy.e/	obstruent /ɔp.stʁy/
	imperfect	obstruais /ɔp.stʁy.ɛ/	obstruais /ɔp.stʁy.ɛ/	obstruait /ɔp.stʁy.ɛ/	obstruions /ɔp.stʁy.jɔ̃/	obstruiez /ɔp.stʁy.je/	obstruaient /ɔp.stʁy.ɛ/
	past historic2	obstruai /ɔp.stʁy.e/	obstruas /ɔp.stʁy.a/	obstrua /ɔp.stʁy.a/	obstruâmes /ɔp.stʁy.am/	obstruâtes /ɔp.stʁy.at/	obstruèrent /ɔp.stʁy.ɛʁ/
	future	obstruerai /ɔp.stʁy.ʁe/	obstrueras /ɔp.stʁy.ʁa/	obstruera /ɔp.stʁy.ʁa/	obstruerons /ɔp.stʁy.ʁɔ̃/	obstruerez /ɔp.stʁy.ʁe/	obstrueront /ɔp.stʁy.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	obstruerais /ɔp.stʁy.ʁɛ/	obstruerais /ɔp.stʁy.ʁɛ/	obstruerait /ɔp.stʁy.ʁɛ/	obstruerions /ɔp.stʁy.ʁjɔ̃/	obstrueriez /ɔp.stʁy.ʁje/	obstrueraient /ɔp.stʁy.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	obstrue /ɔp.stʁy/	obstrues /ɔp.stʁy/	obstrue /ɔp.stʁy/	obstruions /ɔp.stʁy.jɔ̃/	obstruiez /ɔp.stʁy.je/	obstruent /ɔp.stʁy/
	imperfect2	obstruasse /ɔp.stʁy.as/	obstruasses /ɔp.stʁy.as/	obstruât /ɔp.stʁy.a/	obstruassions /ɔp.stʁy.a.sjɔ̃/	obstruassiez /ɔp.stʁy.a.sje/	obstruassent /ɔp.stʁy.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	obstrue /ɔp.stʁy/	—	obstruons /ɔp.stʁy.ɔ̃/	obstruez /ɔp.stʁy.e/	—
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

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