promettre
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin promittere based on mettre.
Pronunciation
Verb
promettre
- to promise
- Je te promets que je te rendrai ton argent avant dimanche. (I promise I'll give you your money back before Sunday.)
- (intransitive) to be promising, to be hopeful.
- C'est une athlète qui promet. (She is a promising athlete.)
Conjugation
- This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is promis, not *promettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with promi-, not *prometti-.
Conjugation of promettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | promettre | avoir or être promis | |||||
| gerund | en promettant | en ayant promis or en étant promis | |||||
| present participle | promettant | ||||||
| past participle | promis | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | promets | promets | promet | promettons | promettez | promettent |
| imperfect | promettais | promettais | promettait | promettions | promettiez | promettaient | |
| past historic1 | promis | promis | promit | promîmes | promîtes | promirent | |
| future | promettrai | promettras | promettra | promettrons | promettrez | promettront | |
| conditional | promettrais | promettrais | promettrait | promettrions | promettriez | promettraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | promette | promettes | promette | promettions | promettiez | promettent |
| imperfect1 | promisse | promisses | promît | promissions | promissiez | promissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | promets | — | promettons | promettez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- nouns: promesse, prometteur