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remettre
remettre
French
Verb
remettre
- to put back, replace
- to put (clothing etc.) back on
- to restart (machine etc.)
- to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (à to)
- to put off, postpone (à until)
- to remember
- to add (more)
- to forgive, remit
- (reflexive) to get over, to recover (de (“from”))
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- Quant à l'évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.
- As for the bishop, seeing the guillotine had been a shock for him, and it took him a long time to get over it.
- Quant à l'évêque, avoir vu la guillotine fut pour lui un choc, et il fut longtemps à s’en remettre.
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.iv:
- (reflexive) to take up again, start (to do something) again
- Il s'est remis à fumer. He's started smoking again.
- (reflexive) To get back
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is remis, not *remettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with remi-, not *remetti-.
Conjugation of remettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | remettre | avoir remis | |||||
| gerund | en remettant | en ayant remis | |||||
| present participle | remettant /ʁə.mɛ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | remis /ʁə.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 | remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remet /ʁə.mɛ/ |
remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/ |
remettent /ʁə.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettais /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettait /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/ |
remettaient /ʁə.mɛ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | remis /ʁə.mi/ |
remis /ʁə.mi/ |
remit /ʁə.mi/ |
remîmes /ʁə.mim/ |
remîtes /ʁə.mit/ |
remirent /ʁə.miʁ/ |
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| future | remettrai /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ |
remettras /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ |
remettra /ʁə.mɛ.tʁa/ |
remettrons /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
remettrez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁe/ |
remettront /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrais /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrait /ʁə.mɛ.tʁɛ/ |
remettrions /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
remettriez /ʁə.mɛ.tʁi.je/ |
remettraient /ʁə.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 | remette /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remettes /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remette /ʁə.mɛt/ |
remettions /ʁə.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
remettiez /ʁə.mɛ.tje/ |
remettent /ʁə.mɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
remisse /ʁə.mis/ |
remisses /ʁə.mis/ |
remît /ʁə.mi/ |
remissions /ʁə.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
remissiez /ʁə.mi.sje/ |
remissent /ʁə.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 | – | |
| — | remets /ʁə.mɛ/ |
— | remettons /ʁə.mɛ.tɔ̃/ |
remettez /ʁə.mɛ.te/ |
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