promettre
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French prometre, an early borrowing from Latin promittere, adapted to or based on French mettre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]promettre
- to promise
- 1856, Francis Linossier, Les mystères de Lyon, page 181:
- S’il ne dépend que de moi, je vous promets de vous y faire arriver promptement.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Je te promets que je te rendrai ton argent avant dimanche. ― I promise I'll give you your money back before Sunday.
- J’ai promis à mon père de ne rien dire à ma mère. ― I promised my dad not to tell my mom.
- (reflexive) to promise oneself
- (intransitive) to be promising, to be hopeful
- C’est une athlète qui promet. ― She is a promising athlete.
- Ça promet ! ― That bodes well!
- (ditransitive reflexive) to hope (for)
- 2018, Zaz, on s'en remet jamais
- Est-ce que tout ce que l’on se promet a pu se perdre dans un désert ? Ne reste-t-il que des poussières une fois que l’amour est absent.
- Could everything we hope for have been lost in a desert? Nothing but dust remains once the love is lost.
- 2018, Zaz, on s'en remet jamais
- (reflexive) to resolve (to)
Conjugation
[edit]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)
| infinitive | simple | promettre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | promettant /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | promis /pʁɔ.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promet /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
promettons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɔ̃/ |
promettez /pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ or /pʁɔ.me.te/ |
promettent /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect | promettais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɛ/ |
promettais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɛ/ |
promettait /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɛ/ |
promettions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ |
promettiez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /pʁɔ.me.tje/ |
promettaient /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | promis /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promis /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promit /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promîmes /pʁɔ.mim/ |
promîtes /pʁɔ.mit/ |
promirent /pʁɔ.miʁ/ | |
| future | promettrai /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁe/ |
promettras /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁa/ |
promettra /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁa/ |
promettrons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ |
promettrez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁe/ |
promettront /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | promettrais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/ |
promettrais /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/ |
promettrait /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁɛ/ |
promettrions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
promettriez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /pʁɔ.me.tʁi.je/ |
promettraient /pʁɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pʁɔ.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 | promette /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promettes /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promette /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
promettions /pʁɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ |
promettiez /pʁɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /pʁɔ.me.tje/ |
promettent /pʁɔ.mɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | promisse /pʁɔ.mis/ |
promisses /pʁɔ.mis/ |
promît /pʁɔ.mi/ |
promissions /pʁɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
promissiez /pʁɔ.mi.sje/ |
promissent /pʁɔ.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | promets /pʁɔ.mɛ/ |
— | promettons /pʁɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.me.tɔ̃/ |
promettez /pʁɔ.mɛ.te/ or /pʁɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]- chose promise, chose due
- ne pas promettre poires molles
- promesse
- promettre monts et merveilles
- prometteur
- promis juré
- promis, juré, craché
- terre promise
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “promettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French prometre, an early borrowing from Latin prōmittō, prōmittere (“send forth; promise”).
Verb
[edit]promettre
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