Conjugation of admetre | Catalan Grammar

Admetre means “to admit, acknowledge, accept, allow” and, for a place or system, “to accommodate.” Its present system is largely transparent (admeto, admets, admet), but the infinitive-final vowel disappears in the future and conditional (admetré, admetria), and the participle is irregular admès. This pattern belongs to the metre family: metre → mès, permetre → permès, prometre → promès, admetre → admès.

Unlike English admit, Catalan admetre covers both confessing a fact and formally accepting a person, document, appeal, or possibility. Its complement reveals the meaning: admetre que s'ha equivocat, admetre un pacient, admetre un recurs a tràmit, una norma que no admet excepcions.

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Learn the five anchors admeto – admeté – admeti – admetré – admès. Most cells preserve admet-; the future contracts, and the participle changes both ending and accent.

Nonfinite forms

Form	Catalan	English guide
Infinitive	admetre	to admit; to accept
Perfect infinitive	haver admès	to have admitted / accepted
Gerund	admetent	admitting; accepting
Perfect gerund	havent admès	having admitted / accepted
Participle	admès; admesa, admesos, admeses	admitted; accepted

The Central form admès has an obligatory grave accent marking an open stressed vowel; (regional: Valencian) the standard form is admés, with an acute accent. In a haver compound the participle is invariable: han admès dues esmenes. In a passive or adjectival construction it agrees: dues esmenes admeses or les candidates han estat admeses. This contrast is developed under irregular participles.

Indicative: simple and periphrastic tenses

Tense	jo	tu	ell / ella / vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells / elles / vostès
Present	admeto	admets	admet	admetem	admeteu	admeten
Imperfect	admetia	admeties	admetia	admetíem	admetíeu	admetien
Periphrastic past	vaig admetre	vas admetre	va admetre	vam admetre	vau admetre	van admetre
Simple past	admetí	admeteres	admeté	admetérem	admetéreu	admeteren
Future	admetré	admetràs	admetrà	admetrem	admetreu	admetran
Conditional	admetria	admetries	admetria	admetríem	admetríeu	admetrien

The future attaches endings to contracted admetr-, not to the visible infinitive admetre-. In the simple past, notice the contrast between first-person admetí and third-person admeté. Everyday completed narration normally uses vaig admetre; admetí... is characteristic of (formal/literary) prose and remains spoken in some regional varieties.

Admeto que vaig calcular malament el temps que necessitàvem.

I admit that I miscalculated the time we needed.

Aquest abonament admet fins a quatre usuaris diferents.

This subscription allows up to four different users.

Finalment, el tribunal va admetre el recurs a tràmit.

The court finally agreed to hear the appeal.

El museu no admetrà grups de més de vint persones sense reserva.

The museum will not admit groups of more than twenty people without a booking.

Indicative: compound tenses

Tense	jo	tu	ell / ella / vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells / elles / vostès
Present perfect	he admès	has admès	ha admès	hem admès	heu admès	han admès
Pluperfect	havia admès	havies admès	havia admès	havíem admès	havíeu admès	havien admès
Past anterior	haguí admès	hagueres admès	hagué admès	haguérem admès	haguéreu admès	hagueren admès
Future perfect	hauré admès	hauràs admès	haurà admès	haurem admès	haureu admès	hauran admès
Conditional perfect	hauria admès	hauries admès	hauria admès	hauríem admès	hauríeu admès	haurien admès

The synthetic past anterior is mainly (formal/literary). Its periphrastic counterpart is vaig haver admès, vas haver admès, va haver admès, vam haver admès, vau haver admès, van haver admès. Neither changes the participle for gender or number.

La comissió ha admès que els criteris no eren prou clars.

The committee has acknowledged that the criteria were not clear enough.

Ja havien admès la criatura a urgències quan hi va arribar la mare.

They had already admitted the child to the emergency department when the mother arrived.

Subjunctive: simple and compound forms

Tense	jo	tu	ell / ella / vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres	ells / elles / vostès
Present	admeti	admetis	admeti	admetem	admeteu	admetin
Imperfect	admetés	admetessis	admetés	admetéssim	admetéssiu	admetessin
Present perfect	hagi admès	hagis admès	hagi admès	hàgim admès	hàgiu admès	hagin admès
Pluperfect	hagués admès	haguessis admès	hagués admès	haguéssim admès	haguéssiu admès	haguessin admès

The periphrastic subjunctive past is vagi admetre, vagis admetre, vagi admetre, vàgim admetre, vàgiu admetre, vagin admetre; the corresponding anterior adds haver admès. These paradigms are not defective, although their real-world frequency is much lower than that of the present and imperfect subjunctive. The forms admetem and admeteu are identical in the present indicative and present subjunctive; their syntactic environment identifies the mood.

Dubto que admetin una sol·licitud presentada fora de termini.

I doubt they will accept an application submitted after the deadline.

Volia que admetessis l'error abans de buscar una solució.

I wanted you to acknowledge the mistake before looking for a solution.

Imperative and clitics

Addressee	Affirmative	Negative
tu	admet	no admetis
vostè	admeti	no admeti
nosaltres	admetem	no admetem
vosaltres	admeteu	no admeteu
vostès	admetin	no admetin

Affirmative commands attach weak pronouns: admet-ho, admeti'l, admetem-la, admeteu-los. Negative commands place them before the verb: no ho admetis. Imperatives are natural when asking someone to acknowledge a fact, but much less likely with the institutional “accept an application” sense unless the addressee has authority to do so.

Admet-ho: t'has equivocat i necessites ajuda.

Admit it: you made a mistake and need help.

No l'admetis al taller sense ulleres de protecció.

Don't let him into the workshop without safety glasses.

Meaning and complement patterns

Acknowledging a fact

Admetre can take a noun, a finite que-clause, or a perfect infinitive: admetre l'error, admetre que s'ha equivocat, admetre haver-se equivocat. The infinitive construction normally shares its understood subject with admetre and is more compact (formal). It does not mean that somebody else committed the action.

La investigadora admet haver omès una dada rellevant de l'informe.

The researcher admits having omitted a relevant piece of data from the report. (formal)

Accepting, allowing, and accommodating

Institutions admeten persones, candidatures, proves or recursos. Admission to a course or place is commonly expressed with a: l'han admès al màster; l'han admès a l'hospital. The legal-administrative collocation is admetre a tràmit. A rule or situation may admetre excepcions, interpretacions or discussió, meaning that it allows them. A venue or container may admetre a maximum capacity.

El programa només admet participants que ja hagin complert divuit anys.

The program only accepts participants who have already turned eighteen.

La formulació admet dues interpretacions igualment plausibles.

The wording allows two equally plausible interpretations.

The neutral weak pronoun ho replaces a whole clause or proposition without lexical gender: No ho vol admetre. Gendered noun phrases, whether concrete or abstract, take el, la, els, les: no admet la derrota → no l'admet. In s'admeten devolucions, plural agreement identifies passive se; other se clauses may be impersonal. Neither construction proves that the dictionary verb is freely pronominal admetre's. In active “I admit” uses, no reflexive clitic appears.

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Ask whether se refers to the admitting party. In la direcció admet devolucions, the verb is active; in s'admeten devolucions, se suppresses the agent. Neither construction means that the management or the returns “admit themselves.”

(Regional: Valencian) a zero-ending first-person present admet, participle admés, and present subjunctive forms admeta, admetes, admeta, admetem, admeteu, admeten belong to the Valencian standard; the imperfect may use admetera.... Keep these forms within a coherent Valencian paradigm rather than combining them randomly with Central admeto, admès, admeti.

Common Mistakes

❌ Finalment, admeteixo que no tenia raó.

Incorrect—admetre is not incoative and never inserts -eix-.

✅ Finalment, admeto que no tenia raó.

I finally admit that I was wrong.

❌ L'any que ve admetre'm més alumnes.

Incorrect—the future uses contracted admetr-; the apostrophe would also create a clitic.

✅ L'any que ve admetrem més alumnes.

Next year we will admit more students.

❌ Han admetit totes les proves documentals.

Incorrect—the metre family has an irregular participle; in the Central standard it is admès.

✅ Han admès totes les proves documentals.

They have accepted all the documentary evidence.

❌ Les candidates han estat admès al programa.

Incorrect—in a passive, the participle agrees with the feminine plural subject.

✅ Les candidates han estat admeses al programa.

The candidates have been admitted to the program.

❌ M'admeto que la proposta era inviable.

Incorrect—active admetre meaning ‘acknowledge’ is not pronominal.

✅ Admeto que la proposta era inviable.

I admit that the proposal was unworkable.

Key Takeaways

Use the regular-looking present admeto, admets, admet but contracted future admetré and irregular participle admès. The latter stays invariable after haver and agrees in true passives or adjectival uses. Admetre can introduce a direct object, que-clause, or same-subject perfect infinitive; admission to an institution commonly takes a. Passive s'admeten... must not be mistaken for a lexical pronominal verb.

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