commettiez

Commmettiez is a French verb form derived from commettre, meaning to commit or to entrust. It is not a standalone verb but a specific inflected form of the verb.

The form commettiez occurs in two main grammatical contexts. In the present subjunctive, it corresponds to the second-person plural vous and is used after expressions that require the subjunctive, such as il faut que, il est nécessaire que, or lorsque paired with a subjunctive clause. For example: Il faut que vous commettiez moins d’erreurs. In this usage, commettiez expresses doubt, possibility, or obligation rather than a simple statement of fact. commettiez also appears as the imperfect indicative of vous, meaning “you were committing” or “you used to commit” in narrative past tense. For example: Quand vous commettiez des erreurs, vous les corrigiez ensuite.

The verb commettre itself comes from the Latin committere, meaning to entrust or to join together, and it has a full conjugation across tenses. The second-person plural present indicative form is commettez (not commettiez), which is a common source of confusion with commettiez. Distinguishing between commettez (present indicative) and commettiez (present subjunctive or imperfect indicative) is a standard point of French grammar.

Usage notes: commettiez is more likely to appear in formal, literary, or historical writing when the subjunctive or imperfect indicative is required. In contemporary conversation, speakers often use alternative constructions or the indicative mood where the subjunctive would be expected in formal writing. See also the related forms commettez and commettent.