illustrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin illūstrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.lys.tʁe/

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Verb

illustrer

1. to illustrate

Conjugation

Conjugation of illustrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	illustrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	illustrant /i.lys.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		illustré /i.lys.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	illustre /i.lystʁ/	illustres /i.lystʁ/	illustre /i.lystʁ/	illustrons /i.lys.tʁɔ̃/	illustrez /i.lys.tʁe/	illustrent /i.lystʁ/
	imperfect	illustrais /i.lys.tʁɛ/	illustrais /i.lys.tʁɛ/	illustrait /i.lys.tʁɛ/	illustrions /i.lys.tʁi.jɔ̃/	illustriez /i.lys.tʁi.je/	illustraient /i.lys.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	illustrai /i.lys.tʁe/	illustras /i.lys.tʁa/	illustra /i.lys.tʁa/	illustrâmes /i.lys.tʁam/	illustrâtes /i.lys.tʁat/	illustrèrent /i.lys.tʁɛʁ/
	future	illustrerai /i.lys.tʁə.ʁe/	illustreras /i.lys.tʁə.ʁa/	illustrera /i.lys.tʁə.ʁa/	illustrerons /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	illustrerez /i.lys.tʁə.ʁe/	illustreront /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	illustrerais /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/	illustrerais /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/	illustrerait /i.lys.tʁə.ʁɛ/	illustrerions /i.lys.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	illustreriez /i.lys.tʁə.ʁje/	illustreraient /i.lys.tʁə.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	illustre /i.lystʁ/	illustres /i.lystʁ/	illustre /i.lystʁ/	illustrions /i.lys.tʁi.jɔ̃/	illustriez /i.lys.tʁi.je/	illustrent /i.lystʁ/
	imperfect2	illustrasse /i.lys.tʁas/	illustrasses /i.lys.tʁas/	illustrât /i.lys.tʁa/	illustrassions /i.lys.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	illustrassiez /i.lys.tʁa.sje/	illustrassent /i.lys.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	illustre /i.lystʁ/	—	illustrons /i.lys.tʁɔ̃/	illustrez /i.lys.tʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• illustrateur
• illustration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

illūstrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of illūstrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

illustrer

1. imperative of illustrere