omettre
French
Etymology
From Middle French, borrowed or adapted from Latin omittō, omittere, based on French mettre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.mɛtʁ/
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Verb
omettre
- (transitive) to omit
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is omis, not *omettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with omi-, not *ometti-.
Conjugation of omettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | omettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | omettant /ɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | omis /ɔ.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | omets /ɔ.mɛ/ | omets /ɔ.mɛ/ | omet /ɔ.mɛ/ | omettons /ɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɔ̃/ | omettez /ɔ.mɛ.te/ or /ɔ.me.te/ | omettent /ɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | omettais /ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ | omettais /ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ | omettait /ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ | omettions /ɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ | omettiez /ɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /ɔ.me.tje/ | omettaient /ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | omis /ɔ.mi/ | omis /ɔ.mi/ | omit /ɔ.mi/ | omîmes /ɔ.mim/ | omîtes /ɔ.mit/ | omirent /ɔ.miʁ/ | |
| future | omettrai /ɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.me.tʁe/ | omettras /ɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.me.tʁa/ | omettra /ɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.me.tʁa/ | omettrons /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ | omettrez /ɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.me.tʁe/ | omettront /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | omettrais /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | omettrais /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | omettrait /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ | omettrions /ɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | omettriez /ɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ɔ.me.tʁi.je/ | omettraient /ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.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 | omette /ɔ.mɛt/ | omettes /ɔ.mɛt/ | omette /ɔ.mɛt/ | omettions /ɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ | omettiez /ɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /ɔ.me.tje/ | omettent /ɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | omisse /ɔ.mis/ | omisses /ɔ.mis/ | omît /ɔ.mi/ | omissions /ɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/ | omissiez /ɔ.mi.sje/ | omissent /ɔ.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | omets /ɔ.mɛ/ | — | omettons /ɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɔ̃/ | omettez /ɔ.mɛ.te/ or /ɔ.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
- omission
Further reading
- “omettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.