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mettre

/mɛtʁ/

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verb/mɛtʁ/

to put; to place; to put on; to set; to start (something / doing something); to get around to it

il a pris un chiffon grisâtre et l'a mis sur la plaieHe took a grayish cloth and placed it over the wound.

Antonyms: enlever

Inherited from Middle French mettre, from Old French metre, from Latin mittere, probably from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange, remove”). Cognate with Occitan metre. Portuguese meter, Spanish meter and Italian mettere.