soumettre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French suzmetre, from Latin submittere or summittere, present active infinitive of summittō. Displaced the borrowed equivalent Middle French submettre. Equivalent to sous- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

soumettre

1. to submit

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is soumis, not *soumettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with soumi-, not *soumetti-.

Conjugation of soumettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soumettre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soumettant /su.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /su.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soumis /su.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soumets /su.mɛ/	soumets /su.mɛ/	soumet /su.mɛ/	soumettons /su.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /su.me.tɔ̃/	soumettez /su.mɛ.te/ or /su.me.te/	soumettent /su.mɛt/
	imperfect	soumettais /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/	soumettais /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/	soumettait /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/	soumettions /su.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /su.me.tjɔ̃/	soumettiez /su.mɛ.tje/ or /su.me.tje/	soumettaient /su.mɛ.tɛ/ or /su.me.tɛ/
	past historic2	soumis /su.mi/	soumis /su.mi/	soumit /su.mi/	soumîmes /su.mim/	soumîtes /su.mit/	soumirent /su.miʁ/
	future	soumettrai /su.mɛ.tʁe/ or /su.me.tʁe/	soumettras /su.mɛ.tʁa/ or /su.me.tʁa/	soumettra /su.mɛ.tʁa/ or /su.me.tʁa/	soumettrons /su.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁɔ̃/	soumettrez /su.mɛ.tʁe/ or /su.me.tʁe/	soumettront /su.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soumettrais /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/	soumettrais /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/	soumettrait /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.me.tʁɛ/	soumettrions /su.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /su.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	soumettriez /su.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /su.me.tʁi.je/	soumettraient /su.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.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	soumette /su.mɛt/	soumettes /su.mɛt/	soumette /su.mɛt/	soumettions /su.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /su.me.tjɔ̃/	soumettiez /su.mɛ.tje/ or /su.me.tje/	soumettent /su.mɛt/
	imperfect2	soumisse /su.mis/	soumisses /su.mis/	soumît /su.mi/	soumissions /su.mi.sjɔ̃/	soumissiez /su.mi.sje/	soumissent /su.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soumets /su.mɛ/	—	soumettons /su.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /su.me.tɔ̃/	soumettez /su.mɛ.te/ or /su.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• mettre
• soumission / submission

Further reading

• “soumettre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.