émettre

French

Etymology

From Middle French emettre, formed after Latin ēmittere. By surface analysis, é- +‎ mettre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.mɛtʁ/

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Verb

émettre

1. (transitive) to emit
2. (transitive) to state, to express
3. (transitive) to issue

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like mettre. That means it is conjugated like battre except that its past participle is émis, not *émettu, and its past historic and imperfect subjunctive are formed with émi-, not *émetti-.

Conjugation of émettre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émettre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émettant /e.mɛ.tɑ̃/ or /e.me.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émis /e.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émets /e.mɛ/	émets /e.mɛ/	émet /e.mɛ/	émettons /e.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.me.tɔ̃/	émettez /e.mɛ.te/ or /e.me.te/	émettent /e.mɛt/
	imperfect	émettais /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettais /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettait /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/	émettions /e.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.me.tjɔ̃/	émettiez /e.mɛ.tje/ or /e.me.tje/	émettaient /e.mɛ.tɛ/ or /e.me.tɛ/
	past historic2	émis /e.mi/	émis /e.mi/	émit /e.mi/	émîmes /e.mim/	émîtes /e.mit/	émirent /e.miʁ/
	future	émettrai /e.mɛ.tʁe/ or /e.me.tʁe/	émettras /e.mɛ.tʁa/ or /e.me.tʁa/	émettra /e.mɛ.tʁa/ or /e.me.tʁa/	émettrons /e.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁɔ̃/	émettrez /e.mɛ.tʁe/ or /e.me.tʁe/	émettront /e.mɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émettrais /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrais /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrait /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.me.tʁɛ/	émettrions /e.mɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /e.me.tʁi.jɔ̃/	émettriez /e.mɛ.tʁi.je/ or /e.me.tʁi.je/	émettraient /e.mɛ.tʁɛ/ or /e.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	émette /e.mɛt/	émettes /e.mɛt/	émette /e.mɛt/	émettions /e.mɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /e.me.tjɔ̃/	émettiez /e.mɛ.tje/ or /e.me.tje/	émettent /e.mɛt/
	imperfect2	émisse /e.mis/	émisses /e.mis/	émît /e.mi/	émissions /e.mi.sjɔ̃/	émissiez /e.mi.sje/	émissent /e.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émets /e.mɛ/	—	émettons /e.mɛ.tɔ̃/ or /e.me.tɔ̃/	émettez /e.mɛ.te/ or /e.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).

Synonyms

• exprimer
• lancer

Related terms

• émetteur/émettrice
• émissaire
• émission
• mettre
• réémettre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• remette