pétarader
French, verb/pe.ta.ʁa.de/
pétarader is a French verb meaning “to backfire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire une pétarade”.
What does pétarader mean in English?
verb
- 1
to backfire
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire une pétarade.
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 pétarader
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pétaradant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pétaradé participle past
- pétarade first-person indicative present
- pétarades indicative present second-person
- pétaradons first-person indicative plural
- pétaradez indicative plural present
- pétaradent indicative plural present
- pétaradais first-person imperfect indicative
- pétaradait imperfect indicative singular
- pétaradions first-person imperfect indicative
- pétaradiez imperfect indicative plural
- pétaradaient imperfect indicative plural
- pétaradai first-person historic indicative
- pétaradas historic indicative past
- pétarada historic indicative past
- pétaradâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pétarader?
- /pe.ta.ʁa.de/
- \pe.ta.ʁa.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pétarader in French?
pétarader appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).