Loading lesson...
Conjugation
Objective: Conjugate mettre and its derivatives across all six persons, apply the past participle mis, and use the family in professional contexts.
| Pronoun | mettre | permettre | promettre |
|---|---|---|---|
| je | mets | permets | promets |
| tu | mets | permets | promets |
| il / elle / on | met | permet | promet |
| nous | mettons | permettons | promettons |
| vous | mettez | permettez | promettez |
| ils / elles | mettent | permettent | promettent |
The past participle of mettre is mis, never metté. The same irregular participle appears in every verb of the family: permis, promis, admis.
Permettre à quelqu'un de faire quelque chose takes an indirect object pronoun before the verb, so the form is il me permet, not il permet moi.
The first-person singular of mettre ends in -s, producing mets. The infinitive follows the preposition avant de.
The past participle of mettre is mis, and the auxiliary avoir precedes it.
Permettre à quelqu'un de takes the indirect object pronoun me before the auxiliary. The participle permis follows the same pattern as mis.
Promettre de introduces the infinitive revenir. The participle promis remains invariable with the auxiliary avoir.
The passive construction uses mis as the past participle, and the participle agrees with the masculine subject service.
7 exercises · about 11 minutes
The first-person singular of mettre ends in -s, producing mets. Dropping the -s produces a form that belongs to the third-person singular.
The auxiliary avoir takes the past participle mis, not the infinitive mettre. The infinitive never follows the auxiliary in the passé composé.
The expression mettre à jour is fixed, and the noun complement follows the preposition à without an article.
Se mettre d'accord is a reflexive expression, and the past participle agrees with the plural subject.
The subjunctive mette uses the stem mett- from ils mettent.