transmettre
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French transmettre, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō, trānsmittere (“I transmit”), based on French mettre. Appeared in Old French as the form trametre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
transmettre
- (transitive) to transmit
Conjugation[edit]
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)
infinitive | simple | transmettre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | transmettant /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/ | ||||||
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 | – | – | – | ||||
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 The French gerund is only usable with the 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[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “transmettre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- transmectre (less common)
- transmetre (less common)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin trānsmittō, trānsmittere (“I transmit”). Cf. also Old French trametre.
Verb[edit]
transmettre
- to transmit
Descendants[edit]
- French: transmettre
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