péter
French, verb/pe.te/
péter is spelled P-É-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears 9.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,166th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Péter is a French verb meaning “to blow off, fart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rejeter un gaz par l’anus. Faire un pet”.
What does péter mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto blow off, fart
- 2
slangto break
- 3
slangto explode
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rejeter un gaz par l’anus. Faire un pet. 2. Se casser, se briser avec bruit, exploser. 3. Exploser. 4. Se rompre brusquement, se casser.
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 péter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pétant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pété participle past
- pète first-person indicative present
- pètes indicative present second-person
- pétons first-person indicative plural
- pétez indicative plural present
- pètent indicative plural present
- pétais first-person imperfect indicative
- pétait imperfect indicative singular
- pétions first-person imperfect indicative
- pétiez imperfect indicative plural
- pétaient imperfect indicative plural
- pétai first-person historic indicative
- pétas historic indicative past
- péta historic indicative past
- pétâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce péter?
- /pe.te/
- \pe.te\
- [pe.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 péter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is péter in French?
péter appears 9.1 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).