jeter
French, verb/ʒə.te/
jeter is spelled J-E-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,569th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jeter is a French verb meaning “to throw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lancer avec la main ou de quelque autre manière”.
What does jeter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw
- 2
to throw away, to discard
- 3
to throw away, discard
- 4
to throw oneself (into, out of, etc.)
L'Amazone se jette dans l'Océan Atlantique.
- 5
to rush oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lancer avec la main ou de quelque autre manière. 2. Mettre sur soi avec quelque promptitude, en parlant d’un vêtement 3. Disposer avec une négligence qui a de la grâce. 4. Donner une certaine disposition aux plis d’une draperie dont on revêt une figure.
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 jeter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jetant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jeté participle past
- jette first-person indicative present
- jettes indicative present second-person
- jetons first-person indicative plural
- jetez indicative plural present
- jettent indicative plural present
- jetais first-person imperfect indicative
- jetait imperfect indicative singular
- jetions first-person imperfect indicative
- jetiez imperfect indicative plural
- jetaient imperfect indicative plural
- jetai first-person historic indicative
- jetas historic indicative past
- jeta historic indicative past
- jetâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jeter?
- /ʒə.te/
- /ʃte/
- /ʒe.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 jeter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is jeter in French?
jeter appears 32 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).