pâturer
French, verb/pa.ty.ʁe/
pâturer is spelled P-Â-T-U-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 126,551st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâturer is a French verb meaning “to graze; to pasture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Paître, brouter”.
What does pâturer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to graze; to pasture
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Paître, brouter.
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 pâturer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pâturant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pâturé participle past
- pâture first-person indicative present
- pâtures indicative present second-person
- pâturons first-person indicative plural
- pâturez indicative plural present
- pâturent indicative plural present
- pâturais first-person imperfect indicative
- pâturait imperfect indicative singular
- pâturions first-person imperfect indicative
- pâturiez imperfect indicative plural
- pâturaient imperfect indicative plural
- pâturai first-person historic indicative
- pâturas historic indicative past
- pâtura historic indicative past
- pâturâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pâturer?
- /pa.ty.ʁe/
- /pɑ.ty.ʁe/
- \pa.ty.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pâturer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pâturer in French?
pâturer appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).