remettre
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. By surface analysis, re- + mettre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
remettre
- to put back, replace
- to put (clothing etc.) back on
- to restart (machine etc.)
- (followed by the preposition à) to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone)
- (followed by the preposition à) to put off, postpone (until)
- to remember
- to add (more)
- to forgive, remit
- (euphemistic) to throw up
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition de) to get over, to recover (from something)
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- Quant à l’évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.
- As for the bishop, seeing the guillotine had been a shock for him, and it took him a long time to get over it.
- (in the passive voice, followed by the preposition de) to be out of the woods
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition à) to take up again, start (to do something) again
- Il s’est remis à fumer. ― He's started smoking again.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to get back
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is remis, not *remettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with remi-, not *remetti-.
Conjugation of remettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remettant /ʁə.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remis /ʁə.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remet /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tɔ̃/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/ or /ʁə.me.te/ |
remettent /ʁə.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tɛ/ |
remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tɛ/ |
remettait /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tɛ/ |
remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tjɔ̃/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/ or /ʁə.me.tje/ |
remettaient /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remis /ʁə.mi/ |
remis /ʁə.mi/ |
remit /ʁə.mi/ |
remîmes /ʁə.mim/ |
remîtes /ʁə.mit/ |
remirent /ʁə.miʁ/ | |
| future | remettrai /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.me.tʁe/ |
remettras /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.me.tʁa/ |
remettra /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.me.tʁa/ |
remettrons /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tʁɔ̃/ |
remettrez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.me.tʁe/ |
remettront /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tʁɛ/ |
remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tʁɛ/ |
remettrait /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.me.tʁɛ/ |
remettrions /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
remettriez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.me.tʁi.je/ |
remettraient /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.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 | remette /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remettes /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remette /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tjɔ̃/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/ or /ʁə.me.tje/ |
remettent /ʁə.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | remisse /ʁə.mis/ |
remisses /ʁə.mis/ |
remît /ʁə.mi/ |
remissions /ʁə.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
remissiez /ʁə.mi.sje/ |
remissent /ʁə.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
— | remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.me.tɔ̃/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/ or /ʁə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
- en remettre une couche
- remettre à sa place
- remettre en cause
- remettre en question
- remettre le couvert
- remettre sur le tapis
- remettre les pendules à l’heure
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “remettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Old French remetre, equivalent to re- + mettre (“to put”).
Verb edit
remettre
- (transitive) to put back