soumettre
French
Etymology
From Old French suzmetre, from Latin submittere or summittere, present active infinitive of summittō. Displaced the borrowed equivalent Middle French submettre. Equivalent to sous- + mettre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.mɛtʁ/
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Verb
soumettre
- to submit
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is soumis, not *soumettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with soumi-, not *soumetti-.
Conjugation of soumettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | soumettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | soumettant /su.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /su.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | soumis /su.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | soumets /su.mɛ/ | soumets /su.mɛ/ | soumet /su.mɛ/ | soumettons /su.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /su.me.tɔ̃/ | soumettez /su.mɛ.te/ or /su.me.te/ | soumettent /su.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | soumettais /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/ | soumettais /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/ | soumettait /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/ | soumettions /su.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /su.me.tjɔ̃/ | soumettiez /su.mɛ.tje/ or /su.me.tje/ | soumettaient /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | soumis /su.mi/ | soumis /su.mi/ | soumit /su.mi/ | soumîmes /su.mim/ | soumîtes /su.mit/ | soumirent /su.miʁ/ | |
| future | soumettrai /su.mɛ.tʁe/ or /su.me.tʁe/ | soumettras /su.mɛ.tʁa/ or /su.me.tʁa/ | soumettra /su.mɛ.tʁa/ or /su.me.tʁa/ | soumettrons /su.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁɔ̃/ | soumettrez /su.mɛ.tʁe/ or /su.me.tʁe/ | soumettront /su.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soumettrais /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/ | soumettrais /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/ | soumettrait /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/ | soumettrions /su.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | soumettriez /su.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /su.me.tʁi.je/ | soumettraient /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.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 | soumette /su.mɛt/ | soumettes /su.mɛt/ | soumette /su.mɛt/ | soumettions /su.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /su.me.tjɔ̃/ | soumettiez /su.mɛ.tje/ or /su.me.tje/ | soumettent /su.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | soumisse /su.mis/ | soumisses /su.mis/ | soumît /su.mi/ | soumissions /su.mi.sjɔ̃/ | soumissiez /su.mi.sje/ | soumissent /su.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | soumets /su.mɛ/ | — | soumettons /su.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /su.me.tɔ̃/ | soumettez /su.mɛ.te/ or /su.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
- mettre
- soumission / submission
Further reading
- “soumettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.