prendre son temps
Letters
17 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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Confusables
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre son temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Faire une chose à loisir, ne pas se presser.
- 2Attendre, aussi longtemps que nécessaire, le moment favorable pour faire réussir quelque chose.
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