prendre du temps
\pʁɑ̃dʁ dy tɑ̃\
The verdict
“prendre du temps” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retarder l’exécution de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-prendre-du-temps · prendre du temps · French
prendre du temps · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre du temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃dʁ dy tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « prendre du temps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
prendre du temps is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pʁɑ̃dʁ dy tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
prendre du temps doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is prendre du temps, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -D-U- -T-E-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Retarder l’exécution de quelque chose.
- 2Demander beaucoup de temps pour son exécution, en parlant d'une tâche
- 3Se reposer ; prendre son temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how prendre du temps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce travail si complexe prendra du temps.
Bon sang, ça en a pris du temps !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.