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)

infinitive	simple	transmettre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transmettant /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transmis /tʁɑ̃s.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmets /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmet /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ/	transmettons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɔ̃/	transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.te/	transmettent /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/
	imperfect	transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/	transmettais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/	transmettait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɛ/	transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tjɔ̃/	transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tje/	transmettaient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.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/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁe/	transmettras /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁa/	transmettra /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁa/	transmettrons /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɔ̃/	transmettrez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁe/	transmettront /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/	transmettrais /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/	transmettrait /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁɛ/	transmettrions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	transmettriez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tʁi.je/	transmettraient /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁɑ̃s.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	transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmettes /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmette /tʁɑ̃s.mɛt/	transmettions /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tjɔ̃/	transmettiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.tje/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.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/ or /tʁɑ̃s.me.tɔ̃/	transmettez /tʁɑ̃s.mɛ.te/ or /tʁɑ̃s.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).

Related terms

• transmetteur
• transmission

Further reading

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

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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