entremettre

French

Etymology

From Old French. By surface analysis, entre- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

entremettre

1. (reflexive, dated) to mediate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is entremis, not *entremettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with entremi-, not *entremetti-.

Conjugation of s'entremettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'entremettre
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’entremettant /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		entremis /ɑ̃.tʁə.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’entremets /mɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ/	t’entremets /tɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ/	s’entremet /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ/	nous entremettons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɔ̃/	vous entremettez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.te/ or /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.te/	s’entremettent /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛt/
	imperfect	m’entremettais /mɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /mɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɛ/	t’entremettais /tɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɛ/	s’entremettait /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɛ/	nous entremettions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tjɔ̃/	vous entremettiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tje/ or /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tje/	s’entremettaient /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɛ/
	past historic2	m’entremis /mɑ̃.tʁə.mi/	t’entremis /tɑ̃.tʁə.mi/	s’entremit /sɑ̃.tʁə.mi/	nous entremîmes /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mim/	vous entremîtes /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mit/	s’entremirent /sɑ̃.tʁə.miʁ/
	future	m’entremettrai /mɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ or /mɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁe/	t’entremettras /tɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ or /tɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁa/	s’entremettra /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁa/	nous entremettrons /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɔ̃/	vous entremettrez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ or /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁe/	s’entremettront /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’entremettrais /mɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɛ/	t’entremettrais /tɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɛ/	s’entremettrait /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɛ/	nous entremettrions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	vous entremettriez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁi.je/	s’entremettraient /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /sɑ̃.tʁə.me.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’entremette /mɑ̃.tʁə.mɛt/	t’entremettes /tɑ̃.tʁə.mɛt/	s’entremette /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛt/	nous entremettions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tjɔ̃/	vous entremettiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tje/ or /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tje/	s’entremettent /sɑ̃.tʁə.mɛt/
	imperfect2	m’entremisse /mɑ̃.tʁə.mis/	t’entremisses /tɑ̃.tʁə.mis/	s’entremît /sɑ̃.tʁə.mi/	nous entremissions /nu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mi.sjɔ̃/	vous entremissiez /vu.z‿ɑ̃.tʁə.mi.sje/	s’entremissent /sɑ̃.tʁə.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	entremets-toi /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.twa/	—	entremettons-nous /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃.nu/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.me.tɔ̃.nu/	entremettez-vous /ɑ̃.tʁə.mɛ.te.vu/ or /ɑ̃.tʁə.me.te.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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).

Derived terms

• entremise

Further reading

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