permettre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin permittō, based on mettre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛʁ.mɛtʁ/
  • Audio (France, Paris)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʁ

Verb

permettre

  1. to permit, to allow
    Vous me permettrez de le faire ?
    Will you allow me to do that?
  2. (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
infinitive permettre avoir permis
gerund en permettant en ayant permis
present participle permettant
/pɛʁ.mɛ.tɑ̃/
past participle permis
/pɛʁ.mi/
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/
past historic1 permis
/pɛʁ.mi/		 permis
/pɛʁ.mi/		 permit
/pɛʁ.mi/		 permîmes
/pɛʁ.mim/		 permîtes
/pɛʁ.mit/		 permirent
/pɛʁ.miʁ/
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/
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/
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/
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/		 —
1literary tenses

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

Latin permittō.

Verb

permettre

  1. to permit, to allow
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