omettre

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, borrowed or adapted from Latin omittere, based on French mettre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.mɛtʁ/
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Verb

omettre

  1. (transitive) to omit

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is omis, not *omettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with omi-, not *ometti-.

Conjugation of omettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple omettre
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple omettant
/ɔ.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle omis
/ɔ.mi/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present omets
/ɔ.mɛ/ 		omets
/ɔ.mɛ/ 		omet
/ɔ.mɛ/ 		omettons
/ɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɔ̃/ 		omettez
/ɔ.mɛ.te/ or /ɔ.me.te/ 		omettent
/ɔ.mɛt/
imperfect omettais
/ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ 		omettais
/ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ 		omettait
/ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/ 		omettions
/ɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ 		omettiez
/ɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /ɔ.me.tje/ 		omettaient
/ɔ.mɛ.tɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tɛ/
past historic2 omis
/ɔ.mi/ 		omis
/ɔ.mi/ 		omit
/ɔ.mi/ 		omîmes
/ɔ.mim/ 		omîtes
/ɔ.mit/ 		omirent
/ɔ.miʁ/
future omettrai
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.me.tʁe/ 		omettras
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.me.tʁa/ 		omettra
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.me.tʁa/ 		omettrons
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/ 		omettrez
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.me.tʁe/ 		omettront
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɔ̃/
conditional omettrais
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ 		omettrais
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ 		omettrait
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.me.tʁɛ/ 		omettrions
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/ 		omettriez
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ɔ.me.tʁi.je/ 		omettraient
/ɔ.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.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 omette
/ɔ.mɛt/ 		omettes
/ɔ.mɛt/ 		omette
/ɔ.mɛt/ 		omettions
/ɔ.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tjɔ̃/ 		omettiez
/ɔ.mɛ.tje/ or /ɔ.me.tje/ 		omettent
/ɔ.mɛt/
imperfect2 omisse
/ɔ.mis/ 		omisses
/ɔ.mis/ 		omît
/ɔ.mi/ 		omissions
/ɔ.mi.sjɔ̃/ 		omissiez
/ɔ.mi.sje/ 		omissent
/ɔ.mis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — omets
/ɔ.mɛ/ 		— omettons
/ɔ.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɔ.me.tɔ̃/ 		omettez
/ɔ.mɛ.te/ or /ɔ.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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