transmettre
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French transmettre, borrowed from Latin trānsmittere (“to transmit”), based on French mettre. Appeared in Old French as the form trametre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtʁ
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is transmis, not *transmettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with transmi-, not *transmetti-.
Conjugation of transmettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | transmettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transmettant /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/ |
transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/ |
transmet /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/ |
transmettons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɔ̃/ |
transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.te/ |
transmettent /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/ |
transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/ |
transmettait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/ |
transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tjɔ̃/ |
transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tje/ |
transmettaient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ |
transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ |
transmit /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ |
transmîmes /tʁɑ̃s.mim/ |
transmîtes /tʁɑ̃s.mit/ |
transmirent /tʁɑ̃s.miʁ/ | |
| future | transmettrai /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁe/ |
transmettras /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁa/ |
transmettra /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁa/ |
transmettrons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɔ̃/ |
transmettrez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁe/ |
transmettront /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/ |
transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/ |
transmettrait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/ |
transmettrions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
transmettriez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁi.je/ |
transmettraient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.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 | transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/ |
transmettes /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/ |
transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/ |
transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tjɔ̃/ |
transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tje/ |
transmettent /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | transmisse /tʁɑ̃s.mis/ |
transmisses /tʁɑ̃s.mis/ |
transmît /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ |
transmissions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
transmissiez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.sje/ |
transmissent /tʁɑ̃s.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/ |
— | transmettons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɔ̃/ |
transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/ or /tʁɑ̃s.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
Further reading
- “transmettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Alternative forms
- transmectre (less common)
- transmetre (less common)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trānsmittō, trānsmittere (“I transmit”). Cf. also Old French trametre.
Descendants
- French: transmettre
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