prédisposer
French, verb/pʁe.dis.po.ze/
prédisposer is spelled P-R-É-D-I-S-P-O-S-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prédisposer is a French verb meaning “to predispose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre dans certaines dispositions favorables”.
What does prédisposer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to predispose
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre dans certaines dispositions favorables. 2. Disposer à l’avance.
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 prédisposer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prédisposant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prédisposé participle past
- prédispose first-person indicative present
- prédisposes indicative present second-person
- prédisposons first-person indicative plural
- prédisposez indicative plural present
- prédisposent indicative plural present
- prédisposais first-person imperfect indicative
- prédisposait imperfect indicative singular
- prédisposions first-person imperfect indicative
- prédisposiez imperfect indicative plural
- prédisposaient imperfect indicative plural
- prédisposai first-person historic indicative
- prédisposas historic indicative past
- prédisposa historic indicative past
- prédisposâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prédisposer?
- /pʁe.dis.po.ze/
- \pʁe.dis.po.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prédisposer in French?
prédisposer appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).