Admettre.
To admit.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE METTRE.

Commettre.
To commit.
Compromettre.

To compromise.

to expose one.
Se démettre.
To resign.
S'entremettre.
To mediate.
Permettre.

To permit.
Omettre.
To omit.
Promettre.

To promise.

Remettre. To deliver. Remettre. To replace. Soumettre.

To submit.
Transmettre.

To transmit.

Il a été admis dans la Société Royale de Londres.
He has been admitted into the Royal Society of
London.

Vous commites une grande faute en le lui disant.
You committed a great fault in telling him of it.
Je ne vous compromettrai pas; comptez sur ma
parole.

I will not expose you; depend on my word.

Il se démit aussitôt de sa charge.
He immediately resigned his office.
Je me suis entremis pour les accorder.
I mediated, in order to reconcile them.
Lui avez-vous permis de venir?
Did you permit him to come?

Je n'ai omis aucune des particularités de cette affaire.
I omitted none of the particulars of this business.
On lui a promis une belle récompense, s'il réussi-
ssait.

A handsome reward has been promised him, should
he succeed.

Lui avez-vous remis le paquet et les plumes?
Have you delivered to him the parcel and the quills?
Avez-vous remis les livres à leur place?
Have you replaced the books?

Je ne me soumettrai jamais à des conditions si
inhumaines.

I will never submit to conditions so inhuman.
Les sciences nous ont été transmises par les Grecs
et par les Romains.

The sciences have been transmitted to us by the
Greeks and Romans.

FIFTH CLASS, AS PRENDRE, TO TAKE.

INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES.

To take, prendre. Taking, prenant. Taken, pris.

Apprendre.
To learn.
Comprendre.
To understand.
Désapprendre.
To unlearn.
Entreprendre.
To undertake.
Se méprendre.
To make a mis-
take.
Reprendre.
To take back.

Combien y a-t-il que vous apprenez le Français ?
How long have you been learning French?
Avez-vous compris ce qu'il a dit?

Did you understand what he said?
Vous désapprenez au lieu d'apprendre.
Instead of learning, you unlearn.
Vous entreprenez trop de choses à la fois.
You undertake too many things at once.
Vous vous êtes mépris sur son compte.
You have made a mistake about him.

J'ai repris mon argent, et lui ses marchandises
I took my money back, and he his goods.

Reprendre.

To blame, to

censure.

Surprendre.
To surprise.

Il a été repris sévèrement par un conseil de guerre.
He was severely blamed (or censured) by a court
martial.

Vous me surprenez d'agir comme vous faites.
You surprise me by acting as you do.

SIXTH CLASS, AS FAIRE, TO DO, OR TO MAKE.

Contrefaire.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE FAIRE.

Il a été pendu pour avoir contrefait des billets de banque.

He was hanged for forging bank-notes.

Vous défaites tout ce que je fais.

You undo all that I do.

Nous défimes l'ennemi avec un grand carnage.
We defeated the enemy with great slaughter.
Il est inutile de le refaire.

It is useless to do it again.

C'est un homme qui satisfait tous ceux qui ont affaire avec lui.

He is a man that pleases all those who have to deal
with him.

Il n'a satisfait aucun de ses créanciers.
He has not satisfied any of his creditors.
Ce marchand vous a surfait de moitié.
This shopkeeper asked you too much by half.

SEVENTH CLASS, AS ECRIRE, TO WRITE.

INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES.

e.

ît.

qu'il ou elle Que nous que vous qu'ils ou elies

Ecriv-ions,
Ecriv-issions, issiez, issent.

iez, ent.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE ECRIRE.

Circonscrire.

To limit, to circumscribe

Décrire.

To describe.

Inscrire.

! Dieu ne se peut circonscrire ni par les lieux ni par les temps.

God cannot be circumscribed either by place or time.

Il a fort bien décrit ce pays-là.

He has described that country very well.

Je vous inscrirai sur mon livre.

To set down, to I will set you down (or enter you) on my book.

enter.

Prescrire.

To prescribe.
Proscrire.

To proscribe.

Récrire.

To write again.
Souscrire.
To subscribe.
Transcrire.

To transcribe.

Prescrivez-moi ce que vous voulez que je fasse.
Prescribe what you wish me to do.

Il a été proscrit pendant la tyrannie de Robespierre.
He was proscribed during the tyranny of Robes-
pierre.

Dites au commis de lui récrire.

Tell the clerk to write to him again.

Je souscrivis pour dix exemplaires de cet ouvrage.
I subscribed for ten copies of this work.
Avez-vous transcrit toutes mes lettres?

Did you transcribe all my letters?

EIGHTH AND LAST CLASS,

EXEMPLIFIED IN DIRE, TO SAY, OR TO TELL.