usiter

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.zi.te/

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• Rhymes: -e

Verb

usiter

1. (transitive) to use, to make use of sth
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to employ sth [+ à/en]

Conjugation

Conjugation of usiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	usiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	usitant /y.zi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		usité /y.zi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	usite /y.zit/	usites /y.zit/	usite /y.zit/	usitons /y.zi.tɔ̃/	usitez /y.zi.te/	usitent /y.zit/
	imperfect	usitais /y.zi.tɛ/	usitais /y.zi.tɛ/	usitait /y.zi.tɛ/	usitions /y.zi.tjɔ̃/	usitiez /y.zi.tje/	usitaient /y.zi.tɛ/
	past historic2	usitai /y.zi.te/	usitas /y.zi.ta/	usita /y.zi.ta/	usitâmes /y.zi.tam/	usitâtes /y.zi.tat/	usitèrent /y.zi.tɛʁ/
	future	usiterai /y.zi.tʁe/	usiteras /y.zi.tʁa/	usitera /y.zi.tʁa/	usiterons /y.zi.tʁɔ̃/	usiterez /y.zi.tʁe/	usiteront /y.zi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	usiterais /y.zi.tʁɛ/	usiterais /y.zi.tʁɛ/	usiterait /y.zi.tʁɛ/	usiterions /y.zi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	usiteriez /y.zi.tə.ʁje/	usiteraient /y.zi.tʁɛ/
(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	usite /y.zit/	usites /y.zit/	usite /y.zit/	usitions /y.zi.tjɔ̃/	usitiez /y.zi.tje/	usitent /y.zit/
	imperfect2	usitasse /y.zi.tas/	usitasses /y.zi.tas/	usitât /y.zi.ta/	usitassions /y.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/	usitassiez /y.zi.ta.sje/	usitassent /y.zi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	usite /y.zit/	—	usitons /y.zi.tɔ̃/	usitez /y.zi.te/	—
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).

Latin

Verb

ūsiter

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of ūsitor