adapter
French, verb/a.dap.te/
adapter is spelled A-D-A-P-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adapter is a French verb meaning “to adapt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appliquer une chose à une autre”.
What does adapter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to adapt
- 2
to adapt oneself or itself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appliquer une chose à une autre. 2. (Concret) Ajuster une chose à une autre. 3. Transposer d'un domaine à un autre. 4. Faire correspondre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adapter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- adaptant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- adapté participle past
- adapte first-person indicative present
- adaptes indicative present second-person
- adaptons first-person indicative plural
- adaptez indicative plural present
- adaptent indicative plural present
- adaptais first-person imperfect indicative
- adaptait imperfect indicative singular
- adaptions first-person imperfect indicative
- adaptiez imperfect indicative plural
- adaptaient imperfect indicative plural
- adaptai first-person historic indicative
- adaptas historic indicative past
- adapta historic indicative past
- adaptâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adapter?
- /a.dap.te/
- \a.dap.te\
- [a.dap.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adapter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adapter in French?
adapter appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).