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permettre
permettre
French
Verb
permettre
- to permit, to allow
- Vous me permettrez de le faire ?
- Will you allow me to do that?
- Vous me permettrez de le faire ?
- (reflexive) to take the liberty of doing something
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is permis, not *permettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with permi-, not *permetti-.
Conjugation of permettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | permettre | avoir permis | |||||
| gerund | en permettant | en ayant permis | |||||
| present participle | permettant /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | permis /pɛʁ.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 | permets /pɛʁ.mɛ/ |
permets /pɛʁ.mɛ/ |
permet /pɛʁ.mɛ/ |
permettons /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
permettez /pɛʁ.mɛ.te/ |
permettent /pɛʁ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | permettais /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
permettais /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
permettait /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
permettions /pɛʁ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
permettiez /pɛʁ.mɛ.tje/ |
permettaient /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | permis /pɛʁ.mi/ |
permis /pɛʁ.mi/ |
permit /pɛʁ.mi/ |
permîmes /pɛʁ.mim/ |
permîtes /pɛʁ.mit/ |
permirent /pɛʁ.miʁ/ |
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| future | permettrai /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁe/ |
permettras /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁa/ |
permettra /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁa/ |
permettrons /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
permettrez /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁe/ |
permettront /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | permettrais /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
permettrais /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
permettrait /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
permettrions /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
permettriez /pɛʁ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ |
permettraient /pɛʁ.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 | permette /pɛʁ.mɛt/ |
permettes /pɛʁ.mɛt/ |
permette /pɛʁ.mɛt/ |
permettions /pɛʁ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
permettiez /pɛʁ.mɛ.tje/ |
permettent /pɛʁ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
permisse /pɛʁ.mis/ |
permisses /pɛʁ.mis/ |
permît /pɛʁ.mi/ |
permissions /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
permissiez /pɛʁ.mi.sje/ |
permissent /pɛʁ.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 | – | |
| — | permets /pɛʁ.mɛ/ |
— | permettons /pɛʁ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
permettez /pɛʁ.mɛ.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||