remettre

French

Etymology

From Old French remetre, inherited from Latin remittō. Synchronically analysable as re- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.mɛtʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

remettre

1. to put back, replace
2. to put (clothing etc.) back on
3. to restart (machine etc.)
4. (followed by the preposition à) to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone)
5. (followed by the preposition à) to put off, postpone (until)
6. to remember
7. to add (more)
8. to forgive, remit
9. (euphemistic) to throw up
10. (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition de) to get over, to recover (from something)
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:

      Quant à l'évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.

      As for the bishop, seeing the guillotine had been a shock for him, and it took him a long time to get over it.

11. (in the passive voice, followed by the preposition de) to be out of the woods
12. (takes a reflexive pronoun, followed by the preposition à) to take up again, start (to do something) again

    Il s'est remis à fumer. ― He's started smoking again.

13. (takes a reflexive pronoun) To get back

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is remis, not *remettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with remi-, not *remetti-.

  Conjugation of remettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		remettre			avoir remis
gerund		en remettant			en ayant remis
present participle		remettant /ʁə.mɛ.tɑ̃/
past participle		remis /ʁə.mi/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	remets /ʁə.mɛ/	remets /ʁə.mɛ/	remet /ʁə.mɛ/	remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/	remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/	remettent /ʁə.mɛt/
	imperfect	remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/	remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/	remettait /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/	remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/	remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/	remettaient /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/
	past historic1	remis /ʁə.mi/	remis /ʁə.mi/	remit /ʁə.mi/	remîmes /ʁə.mim/	remîtes /ʁə.mit/	remirent /ʁə.miʁ/
	future	remettrai /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/	remettras /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/	remettra /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/	remettrons /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/	remettrez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/	remettront /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/	remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/	remettrait /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/	remettrions /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/	remettriez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.je/	remettraient /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	remette /ʁə.mɛt/	remettes /ʁə.mɛt/	remette /ʁə.mɛt/	remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/	remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/	remettent /ʁə.mɛt/
	imperfect1	remisse /ʁə.mis/	remisses /ʁə.mis/	remît /ʁə.mi/	remissions /ʁə.mi.sjɔ̃/	remissiez /ʁə.mi.sje/	remissent /ʁə.mis/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	remets /ʁə.mɛ/	—	remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/	remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/	—
1literary tenses

Further reading

• “remettre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• remectre
• remestre
• remetre

Etymology

Old French remetre, equivalent to re- + mettre (“to put”).

Verb

remettre

1. (transitive) to put back