remettre
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. Synchronically analysable as re- + mettre.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
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.
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- (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
ConjugationEdit
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/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remis /ʁə.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remet /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/ |
remettent /ʁə.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettait /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/ |
remettaient /ʁə.mɛ.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/ |
remettras /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ |
remettra /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ |
remettrons /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
remettrez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ |
remettront /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrait /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrions /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
remettriez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.je/ |
remettraient /ʁə.mɛ.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/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.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/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “remettre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Old French remetre, equivalent to re- + mettre (“to put”).
VerbEdit
remettre
- (transitive) to put back