prédestiner
French, verb/pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne/
prédestiner is spelled P-R-É-D-E-S-T-I-N-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written French, the 261,491st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prédestiner is a French verb meaning “to predestine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vouer d’avance au salut ou à la damnation, selon la doctrine de la prédestination”.
What does prédestiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to predestine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vouer d’avance au salut ou à la damnation, selon la doctrine de la prédestination. 2. Choisir de toute éternité, élire une personne ou une autre au salut, à la damnation éternelle, en parlant de Dieu. 3. Produire un destin qu’il semble qu’on ne pourrait éviter.
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 prédestiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prédestinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prédestiné participle past
- prédestine first-person indicative present
- prédestines indicative present second-person
- prédestinons first-person indicative plural
- prédestinez indicative plural present
- prédestinent indicative plural present
- prédestinais first-person imperfect indicative
- prédestinait imperfect indicative singular
- prédestinions first-person imperfect indicative
- prédestiniez imperfect indicative plural
- prédestinaient imperfect indicative plural
- prédestinai first-person historic indicative
- prédestinas historic indicative past
- prédestina historic indicative past
- prédestinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prédestiner?
- /pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne/
- \pʁe.dɛs.ti.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prédestiner in French?
prédestiner appears about once in every 69 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).