pratiquer
French, verb/pʁa.ti.ke/
pratiquer is spelled P-R-A-T-I-Q-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,118th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pratiquer is a French verb meaning “to do; to practise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en pratique”.
What does pratiquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to do; to practise
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en pratique. 2. Exercer, en parlant de certaines professions, de certains sports, de certains jeux. 3. Observer les pratiques du culte. 4. Employer un moyen.
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 pratiquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pratiquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pratiqué participle past
- pratique first-person indicative present
- pratiques indicative present second-person
- pratiquons first-person indicative plural
- pratiquez indicative plural present
- pratiquent indicative plural present
- pratiquais first-person imperfect indicative
- pratiquait imperfect indicative singular
- pratiquions first-person imperfect indicative
- pratiquiez imperfect indicative plural
- pratiquaient imperfect indicative plural
- pratiquai first-person historic indicative
- pratiquas historic indicative past
- pratiqua historic indicative past
- pratiquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pratiquer?
- /pʁa.ti.ke/
- \pʁa.ti.ke\
- [pʁa.ti.ke]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pratiquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pratiquer in French?
pratiquer appears 14 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).