permettiez

Permettiez is a French verb form derived from permettre, meaning to allow or to permit. It is the second-person plural form of this verb in two different tenses: the present subjunctive, as in que vous permettiez, and the imperfect indicative, as in vous permettiez. In written French the spelling is the same for these two uses; context and surrounding punctuation determine the tense.

Morphology and use

Permettre is irregular, and its forms differ from regular -er verbs. The form permis-pied by lui? In practice, permettiez appears in two common contexts: in subordinate clauses after verbs or expressions that require the subjunctive (for example, Il faut que vous permettiez à chacun de s’exprimer), and as the imperfect indicative in narrative or description (par exemple, Quand vous permettiez l’accès, tout se passait plus rapidement). Because the spelling is identical, distinguishing between present subjunctive and imperfect indicative relies on the surrounding clause and tense markers.

Etymology

The verb permettre comes from Latin permittere, built from per- (through, completely) and mittere (to send, to allow). The form permettre, its tenses, and related forms like permettiez/permåttiez reflect this Latin origin and its semantic shift toward “allowing” or “permitting.”

See also

Permettre (to allow; base verb), French conjugation, subjunctive mood, imperfect tense.