compromettre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comprōmittō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

compromettre

1. (transitive) to compromise, jeopardise

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is compromis, not *compromettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with compromi-, not *comprometti-.

Conjugation of compromettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	compromettre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	compromettant /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		compromis /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	compromets /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ/	compromets /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ/	compromet /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ/	compromettons /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɔ̃/	compromettez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.te/	compromettent /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛt/
	imperfect	compromettais /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɛ/	compromettais /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɛ/	compromettait /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɛ/	compromettions /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tjɔ̃/	compromettiez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tje/	compromettaient /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɛ/
	past historic2	compromis /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi/	compromis /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi/	compromit /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi/	compromîmes /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mim/	compromîtes /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mit/	compromirent /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.miʁ/
	future	compromettrai /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁe/	compromettras /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁa/	compromettra /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁa/	compromettrons /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/	compromettrez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁe/	compromettront /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	compromettrais /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/	compromettrais /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/	compromettrait /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/	compromettrions /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	compromettriez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tʁi.je/	compromettraient /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.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	compromette /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛt/	compromettes /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛt/	compromette /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛt/	compromettions /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tjɔ̃/	compromettiez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tje/	compromettent /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛt/
	imperfect2	compromisse /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mis/	compromisses /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mis/	compromît /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi/	compromissions /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/	compromissiez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mi.sje/	compromissent /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	compromets /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ/	—	compromettons /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.tɔ̃/	compromettez /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ or /kɔ̃.pʁɔ.me.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).

Related terms

• compromis

Descendants

• Russian: компромети́ровать (komprometírovatʹ)

Further reading

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