prendre son temps

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tracked variants

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prendre son temps is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire une chose à loisir, ne pas se presser. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.

Key facts for prendre son temps
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre son temps
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre son temps is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre son temps is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre son temps in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prendre son temps, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire une chose à loisir, ne pas se presser.
  2. 2
    Attendre, aussi longtemps que nécessaire, le moment favorable pour faire réussir quelque chose.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre son temps"?
"prendre son temps" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-O-N- -T-E-M-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\.
What does "prendre son temps" mean?
As a verb, "prendre son temps" means: Faire une chose à loisir, ne pas se presser.
How do you pronounce "prendre son temps"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre son temps" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre son temps" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.