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promettre
promettre
French
Verb
promettre
- to promise
- Je te promets que je te rendrai ton argent avant dimanche. (I promise I'll give you your money back before Sunday.)
- (intransitive) to be promising, to be hopeful.
- C'est une athlète qui promet. (She is a promising athlete.)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is promis, not *promettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with promi-, not *prometti-.
Conjugation of promettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | promettre | avoir promis | |||||
| gerund | en promettant | en ayant promis | |||||
| present participle | promettant /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | promis /pʁɔ.mi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promet /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promettons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
promettez /pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ |
promettent /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | promettais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
promettais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
promettait /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
promettions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
promettiez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ |
promettaient /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | promis /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promis /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promit /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promîmes /pʁɔ.mim/ |
promîtes /pʁɔ.mit/ |
promirent /pʁɔ.miʁ/ |
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| future | promettrai /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ |
promettras /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ |
promettra /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ |
promettrons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
promettrez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ |
promettront /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | promettrais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
promettrais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
promettrait /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
promettrions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
promettriez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ |
promettraient /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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| 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 | promette /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promettes /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promette /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promettions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
promettiez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ |
promettent /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
promisse /pʁɔ.mis/ |
promisses /pʁɔ.mis/ |
promît /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promissions /pʁɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
promissiez /pʁɔ.mi.sje/ |
promissent /pʁɔ.mis/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
— | promettons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
promettez /pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- nouns: promesse, prometteur
Related terms
Norman
Etymology
From Old French prometre, from Latin prōmittō, prōmittere (“send forth; promise”).
Verb
promettre