apprêter
French, verb/a.pʁɛ.te/
apprêter is spelled A-P-P-R-Ê-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 53,211th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apprêter is a French verb meaning “to prepare, to get ready, prime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préparer ; mettre en état”.
What does apprêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prepare, to get ready, prime
- 2
to prepare for/to do, to get ready for/to do, to be about to do
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Préparer ; mettre en état. 2. Soumettre à un apprêt.
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 apprêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- apprêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apprêté participle past
- apprête first-person indicative present
- apprêtes indicative present second-person
- apprêtons first-person indicative plural
- apprêtez indicative plural present
- apprêtent indicative plural present
- apprêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- apprêtait imperfect indicative singular
- apprêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- apprêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- apprêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- apprêtai first-person historic indicative
- apprêtas historic indicative past
- apprêta historic indicative past
- apprêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apprêter?
- /a.pʁɛ.te/
- /a.pʁe.te/
- \a.pʁe.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 apprêter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apprêter in French?
apprêter appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).