commettre
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.mɛtʁ/
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Verb
commettre
- to commit
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is commis, not *commettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with commi-, not *commetti-.
Conjugation of commettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | commettre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | commettant /kɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | commis /kɔ.mi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | commets /kɔ.mɛ/ | commets /kɔ.mɛ/ | commet /kɔ.mɛ/ | commettons /kɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tɔ̃/ | commettez /kɔ.mɛ.te/ or /kɔ.me.te/ | commettent /kɔ.mɛt/ |
imperfect | commettais /kɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tɛ/ | commettais /kɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tɛ/ | commettait /kɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tɛ/ | commettions /kɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ | commettiez /kɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /kɔ.me.tje/ | commettaient /kɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | commis /kɔ.mi/ | commis /kɔ.mi/ | commit /kɔ.mi/ | commîmes /kɔ.mim/ | commîtes /kɔ.mit/ | commirent /kɔ.miʁ/ | |
future | commettrai /kɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.me.tʁe/ | commettras /kɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.me.tʁa/ | commettra /kɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.me.tʁa/ | commettrons /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ | commettrez /kɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.me.tʁe/ | commettront /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | commettrais /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | commettrais /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | commettrait /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | commettrions /kɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | commettriez /kɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /kɔ.me.tʁi.je/ | commettraient /kɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.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 | commette /kɔ.mɛt/ | commettes /kɔ.mɛt/ | commette /kɔ.mɛt/ | commettions /kɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ | commettiez /kɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /kɔ.me.tje/ | commettent /kɔ.mɛt/ |
imperfect2 | commisse /kɔ.mis/ | commisses /kɔ.mis/ | commît /kɔ.mi/ | commissions /kɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/ | commissiez /kɔ.mi.sje/ | commissent /kɔ.mis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | commets /kɔ.mɛ/ | — | commettons /kɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /kɔ.me.tɔ̃/ | commettez /kɔ.mɛ.te/ or /kɔ.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). |
Further reading
- “commettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.