presser
French, verb/pʁɛ.se/
presser is spelled P-R-E-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.1 times per million words in written French, the 12,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Presser is a French verb meaning “to urge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exercer une pression ; serrer plus ou moins fort”.
What does presser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to urge
- 2
to squeeze, to squash
- 3
to hurry, to hurry up
- 4
to hurry up
- 5
to press against each other, to flock
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exercer une pression ; serrer plus ou moins fort. 2. Exprimer le jus d’un fruit, le liquide de quelque chose. 3. Utiliser une presse ou un pressoir. 4. Appuyer contre ; peser sur.
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 presser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pressant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pressé participle past
- presse first-person indicative present
- presses indicative present second-person
- pressons first-person indicative plural
- pressez indicative plural present
- pressent indicative plural present
- pressais first-person imperfect indicative
- pressait imperfect indicative singular
- pressions first-person imperfect indicative
- pressiez imperfect indicative plural
- pressaient imperfect indicative plural
- pressai first-person historic indicative
- pressas historic indicative past
- pressa historic indicative past
- pressâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce presser?
- /pʁɛ.se/
- /pʁe.se/
- \pʁe.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to presser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is presser in French?
presser appears 4.1 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).