admettre
French
Etymology
From Old French admettre, borrowed or adapted from classical Latin admittere, infinitive of admittō, based on French mettre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ad.mɛtʁ/
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Verb
admettre
- to admit, to accept, to recognize
- 1881, author incertain, Lyon Médical, page 564:
- Les premiers auteurs qui ont étudié ce phénomène, Taupin, Piorry, Hourmann (Revue médicale française et étrangère, juillet 1839), qui lui a donné le nom d’autophonie, Hornemann, ont eu le tort, d’après l’auteur, de donner à ce signe une signification symptomatique trop étendue, et de créer des variétés purement artificielles, en admettant l’autophonie normale, ægophonique, bronchophonique, etc.
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- to admit (into), to accept (into) (a hospital or a university)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is admis, not *admettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with admi-, not *admetti-.
Conjugation of admettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | admettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | admettant /ad.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ad.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | admis /ad.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | admets /ad.mɛ/ | admets /ad.mɛ/ | admet /ad.mɛ/ | admettons /ad.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tɔ̃/ | admettez /ad.mɛ.te/ or /ad.me.te/ | admettent /ad.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | admettais /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/ | admettais /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/ | admettait /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/ | admettions /ad.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tjɔ̃/ | admettiez /ad.mɛ.tje/ or /ad.me.tje/ | admettaient /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | admis /ad.mi/ | admis /ad.mi/ | admit /ad.mi/ | admîmes /ad.mim/ | admîtes /ad.mit/ | admirent /ad.miʁ/ | |
| future | admettrai /ad.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ad.me.tʁe/ | admettras /ad.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ad.me.tʁa/ | admettra /ad.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ad.me.tʁa/ | admettrons /ad.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁɔ̃/ | admettrez /ad.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ad.me.tʁe/ | admettront /ad.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | admettrais /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/ | admettrais /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/ | admettrait /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/ | admettrions /ad.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | admettriez /ad.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ad.me.tʁi.je/ | admettraient /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.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 | admette /ad.mɛt/ | admettes /ad.mɛt/ | admette /ad.mɛt/ | admettions /ad.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tjɔ̃/ | admettiez /ad.mɛ.tje/ or /ad.me.tje/ | admettent /ad.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | admisse /ad.mis/ | admisses /ad.mis/ | admît /ad.mi/ | admissions /ad.mi.sjɔ̃/ | admissiez /ad.mi.sje/ | admissent /ad.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | admets /ad.mɛ/ | — | admettons /ad.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tɔ̃/ | admettez /ad.mɛ.te/ or /ad.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- admis
- admission
- admissible
- admissiblement
- inadmis
- inadmissible
- inadmissiblement
- réadmettre
- admissibilité
- inadmissibilité
Further reading
- “admettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- démettra
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed or adapted from Latin admitto, admittere, based on mettre, metre.
Verb
admettre
- to admit (to permit to enter)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of admettre (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | admettre | avoir admis | |||||
| gerund | en admettant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | admettant | ||||||
| past participle | admis | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | admet | admez | admet | admettons | admettez | admettent |
| imperfect | admettoie, admetteie | admettoies, admetteies | admettoit, admetteit | admettiiens, admettiens | admettiiez, admettiez | admettoient, admetteient | |
| preterite | admis | admeṣis | admist | admeṣimes | admeṣistes | admisdrent | |
| future | admettrai | admettras | admettra | admettrons | admettroiz, admettreiz, admettrez | admettront | |
| conditional | admettroie, admettreie | admettroies, admettreies | admettroit, admettreit | admettriiens, admettriens | admettriiez, admettriez | admettroient, admettreient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | admette | admettes | admette | admettons | admettez | admettent |
| imperfect | admeṣisse | admeṣisses | admeṣist | admeṣissons, admeṣissiens | admeṣissoiz, admeṣissez, admeṣissiez | admeṣissent | |
| compound tenses | past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | admet | — | admettons | admettez | — | ||
Descendants
- → English: admit
- French: admettre