alterné
French, verb
alterné is spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-É (7 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,887th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alterné is a French verb meaning “past participle of alterner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, alterne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does alterné mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of alterner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Désigne les angles formés par deux droites parallèles, avec les côtés opposés d’une même sécante. 2. Désigne des feuilles disposées de chaque côté de la tige, à des hauteurs différentes.
adjective: 1. Se dit des pièces qui se correspondent. 2. Qui prévoit une alternance.
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 alterné
- alternée feminine
- alternés masculine plural
- alternées feminine plural
- alternes plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is alterné in French?
alterné appears 1.5 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).