As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on

February 19, 2014

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	x
Pre-Effective Amendment No.	¨
Post-Effective Amendment No. 51	x
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	x
Amendment No. 47 (Check appropriate box or boxes)	x

PUTNAM MONEY MARKET FUND

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Registration No. 2-55091

811-02608

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	x
Pre-Effective Amendment No.	¨
Post-Effective Amendment No. 35	x
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	x
Amendment No. 37 (Check appropriate box or boxes)	x

PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT MONEY MARKET FUND

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Registration No. 33-15238

811-05215

One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrants’ Telephone Number, including Area Code

(617) 292-1000

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)

¨ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

x on January 30, 2014 pursuant to paragraph (b)

¨ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) (1)

¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) (1)

¨ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) (2)

¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) (2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

¨ this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President

PUTNAM MONEY MARKET FUND

PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT MONEY MARKET FUND

One Post Office Square

Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Name and address of agent for service)

Copy to:

JOHN W. GERSTMAYR, Esquire

ROPES & GRAY LLP

Prudential Tower

800 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02199-3600

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, each Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 28^th day of January, 2014.

PUTNAM MONEY MARKET FUND
PUTNAM TAX EXEMPT MONEY MARKET FUND
By:	/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Signature	Title
Jameson A. Baxter*	Chair, Board of Trustees
Robert L. Reynolds*	President and Trustee
Jonathan S. Horwitz*	Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison
Steven D. Krichmar*	Vice President and Principal Financial Officer
Janet C. Smith*	Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer
Liaquat Ahamed*	Trustee
Ravi Akhoury*	Trustee

Barbara M. Baumann*	Trustee
Charles B. Curtis*	Trustee
Robert J. Darretta*	Trustee
Katinka Domotorffy*	Trustee
John A. Hill*	Trustee
Paul L. Joskow*	Trustee
Kenneth R. Leibler*	Trustee
Robert E. Patterson*	Trustee
George Putnam, III*	Trustee
W. Thomas Stephens*	Trustee

By:	/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact January 28, 2014
	*Signed pursuant to power of attorney- Incorporated by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 48 to the Money Market Fund’s Registration Statement and Post-Effective Amendment No.32 to the Tax Exempt Money Market Fund’s Registration Statement on January 28, 2013.