perdre
French, verb/pɛʁdʁ/
perdre is spelled P-E-R-D-R-E (6 letters) and appears 105 times per million words in written French, the 787th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Perdre is a French verb meaning “to lose (be unable to find)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être privé de quelque chose qu’on avait, qu’on possédait”.
What does perdre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lose (be unable to find)
J'ai perdu les clés, mais un de mes amis les a trouvées.
- 2
to lose (not win)
- 3
to get lost
Ils se sont perdus dans la forêt dense.
- 4
to waste, to make bad use of something
Je crois que la journée est trop belle pour qu'on la perde.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être privé de quelque chose qu’on avait, qu’on possédait. 2. Être privé d’un avantage ou d’un profit. 3. Être privé, par la mort ou autrement, d’une personne qu’on aimait, qu’on a sujet de regretter. 4. Être privé de quelque partie de soi, subir la perte ou la diminution sensible de quelque faculté, de quelque avantage physique ou moral que l’on possédait.
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 perdre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- perdant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- perdu participle past
- perds first-person indicative present
- perd indicative present singular
- perdons first-person indicative plural
- perdez indicative plural present
- perdent indicative plural present
- perdais first-person imperfect indicative
- perdait imperfect indicative singular
- perdions first-person imperfect indicative
- perdiez imperfect indicative plural
- perdaient imperfect indicative plural
- perdis first-person historic indicative
- perdit historic indicative past
- perdîmes first-person historic indicative
- perdîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce perdre?
- /pɛʁdʁ/
- \pɛʁdʁ\
- [pɛʁdʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to perdre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is perdre in French?
perdre appears 105 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).