prier
French, verb/pʁi.je/
prier is spelled P-R-I-E-R (5 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prier is a French verb meaning “to pray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adorer la divinité en lui demandant une grâce, en la remerciant d’une grâce”.
What does prier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pray
- 2
to beg, to beseech, to pray to
Vous devez prier Dieu.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Adorer la divinité en lui demandant une grâce, en la remerciant d’une grâce. 2. Demander par grâce, avec une sorte d’humilité ou au moins de déférence. 3. S’emploie souvent par simple formule de civilité, de façon phatique. 4. Inviter ; convier.
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 prier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- priant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prié participle past
- prie first-person indicative present
- pries indicative present second-person
- prions first-person indicative plural
- priez indicative plural present
- prient indicative plural present
- priais first-person imperfect indicative
- priait imperfect indicative singular
- priions first-person imperfect indicative
- priiez imperfect indicative plural
- priaient imperfect indicative plural
- priai first-person historic indicative
- prias historic indicative past
- pria historic indicative past
- priâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prier?
- /pʁi.je/
- \pʁi.je\
- [pʁi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prier in French?
prier appears 12 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).