étais
French, noun/e.tɛ/
étais is spelled É-T-A-I-S (5 letters) and appears 240 times per million words in written French, the 354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étais is a French masculine noun meaning “plural of étai” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of être.
What does étais mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of être
noun
- 1
masculineplural of étai
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
typographic variant: 1. Mauvaise orthographe de Étais
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.
How do you pronounce étais?
- /e.tɛ/
- [e.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is étais in French?
étais appears 240 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).