omettre

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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• omission

Further reading

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