émettre

French

Etymology

From Middle French emettre, formed after Latin ēmittere. By surface analysis, é- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.mɛtʁ/
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Verb

émettre

(transitive) to emit
Synonym: lancer
(transitive) to state, to express
Synonym: exprimer
(transitive) to issue

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is émis, not *émettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with émi-, not *émetti-.

Conjugation of émettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	émettre
present participle or gerund¹	simple	émettant /e.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.me.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émis /e.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émets /e.mɛ/	émets /e.mɛ/	émet /e.mɛ/	émettons /e.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.me.tɔ̃/	émettez /e.mɛ.te/ or /e.me.te/	émettent /e.mɛt/
	imperfect	émettais /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettais /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettait /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettions /e.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.me.tjɔ̃/	émettiez /e.mɛ.tje/ or /e.me.tje/	émettaient /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/
	past historic²	émis /e.mi/	émis /e.mi/	émit /e.mi/	émîmes /e.mim/	émîtes /e.mit/	émirent /e.miʁ/
	future	émettrai /e.mɛ.tʁe/ or /e.me.tʁe/	émettras /e.mɛ.tʁa/ or /e.me.tʁa/	émettra /e.mɛ.tʁa/ or /e.me.tʁa/	émettrons /e.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁɔ̃/	émettrez /e.mɛ.tʁe/ or /e.me.tʁe/	émettront /e.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émettrais /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrais /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrait /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrions /e.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	émettriez /e.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /e.me.tʁi.je/	émettraient /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.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	émette /e.mɛt/	émettes /e.mɛt/	émette /e.mɛt/	émettions /e.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.me.tjɔ̃/	émettiez /e.mɛ.tje/ or /e.me.tje/	émettent /e.mɛt/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	émisse /e.mis/	émisses /e.mis/	émît /e.mi/	émissions /e.mi.sjɔ̃/	émissiez /e.mi.sje/	émissent /e.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	émets /e.mɛ/	—	émettons /e.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.me.tɔ̃/	émettez /e.mɛ.te/ or /e.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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