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prête

French, verb

prête is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of prêt. With an accent, prêté is a different word: “past participle of prêter”.

What does prête mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of prêt

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as prêté
  1. 1

    past participle of prêter

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Objet d'un prêt.

noun: 1. Lien fait en osier et destiné à réunir les deux extrémités d'un cercle d'un tonneau.

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 prête

  • prêtée feminine
  • prêtés masculine plural
  • prêtées feminine plural
  • prêtes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to prête

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is prête in French?

prête appears 42 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).