commettre

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin committere, present active infinitive of committō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

commettre

1. to commit

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Further reading

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