détester
French, verb/de.tɛs.te/
détester is spelled D-É-T-E-S-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 5.2 times per million words in written French, the 10,846th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Détester is a French verb meaning “to hate, to detest (to thoroughly dislike)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maudire”.
What does détester mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hate, to detest (to thoroughly dislike)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Maudire. 2. Avoir en aversion ; réprouver. 3. Ne pas supporter ; ne pas aimer ; ne pas apprécier.
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 détester
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- détestant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- détesté participle past
- déteste first-person indicative present
- détestes indicative present second-person
- détestons first-person indicative plural
- détestez indicative plural present
- détestent indicative plural present
- détestais first-person imperfect indicative
- détestait imperfect indicative singular
- détestions first-person imperfect indicative
- détestiez imperfect indicative plural
- détestaient imperfect indicative plural
- détestai first-person historic indicative
- détestas historic indicative past
- détesta historic indicative past
- détestâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce détester?
- /de.tɛs.te/
- \de.tɛs.te\
- \de.tes.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 détester
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is détester in French?
détester appears 5.2 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).