prélever
French, verb/pʁel.ve/
prélever is spelled P-R-É-L-E-V-E-R (8 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prélever is a French verb meaning “to take (sur from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lever préalablement une certaine portion sur le total”.
What does prélever mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take (sur from)
- 2
to take (blood), remove (an organ), harvest (an organ)
- 3
to take out, withdraw (money)
- 4
to deduct, to subtract (numbers, or percentages)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lever préalablement une certaine portion sur le total. 2. Tuer, en parlant de gibier.
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 prélever
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prélevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prélevé participle past
- prélève first-person indicative present
- prélèves indicative present second-person
- prélevons first-person indicative plural
- prélevez indicative plural present
- prélèvent indicative plural present
- prélevais first-person imperfect indicative
- prélevait imperfect indicative singular
- prélevions first-person imperfect indicative
- préleviez imperfect indicative plural
- prélevaient imperfect indicative plural
- prélevai first-person historic indicative
- prélevas historic indicative past
- préleva historic indicative past
- prélevâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prélever?
- /pʁel.ve/
- /pʁɛl.ve/
- \pʁe.lə.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prélever
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prélever in French?
prélever appears 2.5 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).