transmettre

French

Etymology

From Middle French transmettre, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō, trānsmittere (“I transmit”), based on French mettre. Appeared in Old French as the form trametre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.mɛtʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

transmettre

1. (transitive) to transmit

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is transmis, not *transmettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with transmi-, not *transmetti-.

Conjugation of transmettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		transmettant /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɑ̃/
past participle		transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/
infinitive
simple		transmettre
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		transmettant /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmet /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmettons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɔ̃/	transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/	transmettent /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/
	imperfect	transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/	transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/	transmettait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/	transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/	transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/	transmettaient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/
	past historic2	transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/	transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/	transmit /tʁɑ̃s.mi/	transmîmes /tʁɑ̃s.mim/	transmîtes /tʁɑ̃s.mit/	transmirent /tʁɑ̃s.miʁ/
	future	transmettrai /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁe/	transmettras /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/	transmettra /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/	transmettrons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/	transmettrez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁe/	transmettront /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/	transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/	transmettrait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/	transmettrions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/	transmettriez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.je/	transmettraient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.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	transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmettes /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/	transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/	transmettent /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/
	imperfect2	transmisse /tʁɑ̃s.mis/	transmisses /tʁɑ̃s.mis/	transmît /tʁɑ̃s.mi/	transmissions /tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃/	transmissiez /tʁɑ̃s.mi.sje/	transmissent /tʁɑ̃s.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	—	transmettons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɔ̃/	transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• transmetteur
• transmission

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• transmectre (less common)
• transmetre (less common)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmittō, trānsmittere (“I transmit”). Cf. also Old French trametre.

Verb

transmettre

1. to transmit

Descendants

• French: transmettre