Instruisons

Instruisons is a French verb form derived from instruire, meaning to educate, instruct, or train. It represents the first-person plural in two related ways: as the present indicative of the verb (nous instruisons = we instruct) and as the imperative in the nous form (Let us instruct / Let us teach), commonly used to propose a course of action, often with an accompanying object: Instruisons les élèves, Instruisons-nous.

The verb instruire comes from Latin instruere, meaning to build up, prepare, or educate. In modern French, instruire covers a range of senses from teaching and informing to handling tasks that require preparation or investigation. In legal contexts, instruire can also mean to conduct an inquiry or to prepare an investigation into a case (l’instruction).

In everyday usage, instruire conveys training, education, or informing someone. The past participle is instruit, as in j’ai instruit or il a instruit, with compound tenses formed with the auxiliary avoir. The related noun instruction shares the same root and can refer to the act of teaching, the process of training, or, in law, the formal stage of examining a case. Distinct forms of the same verb include j'instruis, tu instruis, il instruit, vous instruisez, ils instruisent, as well as inferred variants like s’instruire (to educate oneself). Pronunciation of instruisons is roughly [ɛ̃.stʁɥi.zɔ̃].