prêcher
French, verb/pʁɛ.ʃe/
prêcher is spelled P-R-Ê-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,380th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prêcher is a French verb meaning “to preach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Annoncer la parole de Dieu, instruire les peuples par des sermons”.
What does prêcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to preach
prêcher la Bonne Nouvelle
- 2
to advocate moral values, political ideas
prêcher le bien
- 3
to lecture someone about what is good or bad
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Annoncer la parole de Dieu, instruire les peuples par des sermons. 2. Prêcher dans une même église durant une même période canoniale. 3. Publier, recommander, répandre, soit de vive voix, soit par écrit. 4. Répéter sans cesse les mêmes propos.
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 prêcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prêchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prêché participle past
- prêche first-person indicative present
- prêches indicative present second-person
- prêchons first-person indicative plural
- prêchez indicative plural present
- prêchent indicative plural present
- prêchais first-person imperfect indicative
- prêchait imperfect indicative singular
- prêchions first-person imperfect indicative
- prêchiez imperfect indicative plural
- prêchaient imperfect indicative plural
- prêchai first-person historic indicative
- prêchas historic indicative past
- prêcha historic indicative past
- prêchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prêcher?
- /pʁɛ.ʃe/
- /pʁe.ʃe/
- \pʁe.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prêcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prêcher in French?
prêcher appears 2.0 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).