émettre
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
émettre
- (transitive) to emit
- (transitive) to state, to express
- (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 | simple | émettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | émettant /e.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| 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/ |
| 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 | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Synonyms
Related terms
Further reading
- “émettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.