admettre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French admettre, borrowed or adapted from classical Latin admittere, infinitive of admittō, based on French mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

admettre

1. to admit, to accept, to recognize
   • 1881, author uncertain, Lyon Médical‎^[1], page 564:

     Les premiers auteurs qui ont étudié ce phénomène, Taupin, Piorry, Hourmann (Revue médicale française et étrangère, juillet 1839), qui lui a donné le nom d’autophonie, Hornemann, ont eu le tort, d’après l’auteur, de donner à ce signe une signification symptomatique trop étendue, et de créer des variétés purement artificielles, en admettant l’autophonie normale, ægophonique, bronchophonique, etc.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (ditransitive) to admit (into), to accept (into) (a hospital or a university)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is admis, not *admettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with admi-, not *admetti-.

Conjugation of admettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	admettre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	admettant /ad.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ad.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		admis /ad.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	admets /ad.mɛ/	admets /ad.mɛ/	admet /ad.mɛ/	admettons /ad.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tɔ̃/	admettez /ad.mɛ.te/ or /ad.me.te/	admettent /ad.mɛt/
	imperfect	admettais /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/	admettais /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/	admettait /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/	admettions /ad.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tjɔ̃/	admettiez /ad.mɛ.tje/ or /ad.me.tje/	admettaient /ad.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ad.me.tɛ/
	past historic2	admis /ad.mi/	admis /ad.mi/	admit /ad.mi/	admîmes /ad.mim/	admîtes /ad.mit/	admirent /ad.miʁ/
	future	admettrai /ad.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ad.me.tʁe/	admettras /ad.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ad.me.tʁa/	admettra /ad.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ad.me.tʁa/	admettrons /ad.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁɔ̃/	admettrez /ad.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ad.me.tʁe/	admettront /ad.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	admettrais /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/	admettrais /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/	admettrait /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.me.tʁɛ/	admettrions /ad.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	admettriez /ad.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ad.me.tʁi.je/	admettraient /ad.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ad.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	admette /ad.mɛt/	admettes /ad.mɛt/	admette /ad.mɛt/	admettions /ad.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tjɔ̃/	admettiez /ad.mɛ.tje/ or /ad.me.tje/	admettent /ad.mɛt/
	imperfect2	admisse /ad.mis/	admisses /ad.mis/	admît /ad.mi/	admissions /ad.mi.sjɔ̃/	admissiez /ad.mi.sje/	admissent /ad.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	admets /ad.mɛ/	—	admettons /ad.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ad.me.tɔ̃/	admettez /ad.mɛ.te/ or /ad.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).

Related terms

• admis
• admission
• admissible
• admissiblement
• inadmis
• inadmissible
• inadmissiblement
• réadmettre
• admissibilité
• inadmissibilité

Further reading

• “admettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• démettra

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed or adapted from Latin admitto, admittere, based on mettre, metre.

Verb

admettre

1. to admit (to permit to enter)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of admettre (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		admettre			avoir admis
gerund		en admettant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		admettant
past participle		admis
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	admet	admez	admet	admettons	admettez	admettent
	imperfect	admettoie, admetteie	admettoies, admetteies	admettoit, admetteit	admettiiens, admettiens	admettiiez, admettiez	admettoient, admetteient
	preterite	admis	admeṣis	admist	admeṣimes	admeṣistes	admisdrent
	future	admettrai	admettras	admettra	admettrons	admettroiz, admettreiz, admettrez	admettront
	conditional	admettroie, admettreie	admettroies, admettreies	admettroit, admettreit	admettriiens, admettriens	admettriiez, admettriez	admettroient, admettreient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	admette	admettes	admette	admettons	admettez	admettent
	imperfect	admeṣisse	admeṣisses	admeṣist	admeṣissons, admeṣissiens	admeṣissoiz, admeṣissez, admeṣissiez	admeṣissent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	admet	—	admettons	admettez	—

Descendants

• → English: admit
• French: admettre