commettre
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin committere.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
commettre
- to commit
Conjugation[edit]
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[edit]
- “commettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.