promettre

Meaning

  1. to promise
  2. (reflexive) to promise
  3. (intransitive) to be promising, to be hopeful
  4. (ditransitive, reflexive) to hope (for)
  5. (reflexive) to resolve (to)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pʁɔ.mɛtʁ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French prometre, an early borrowing from Latin promittere, adapted to or based on French mettre.

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