protéger
French, verb/pʁɔ.te.ʒe/
protéger is spelled P-R-O-T-É-G-E-R (8 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written French, the 1,441st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Protéger is a French verb meaning “to protect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre la défense de quelqu’un, de quelque chose ; prêter secours et appui”.
What does protéger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to protect
protéger de / protéger contre
- 2
to protect oneself
se protéger de la chaleur
- 3
to protect one's ...
se protéger les yeux du soleil
- 4
to protect each other
se protéger l'un l'autre
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre la défense de quelqu’un, de quelque chose ; prêter secours et appui. 2. S’intéresser, contribuer à la fortune d’une personne ; veiller au maintien, au progrès d’une chose. 3. Garantir, mettre à l’abri d’une incommodité, d’un danger.
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 protéger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- protégeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- protégé participle past
- protège first-person indicative present
- protèges indicative present second-person
- protégeons first-person indicative plural
- protégez indicative plural present
- protègent indicative plural present
- protégeais first-person imperfect indicative
- protégeait imperfect indicative singular
- protégions first-person imperfect indicative
- protégiez imperfect indicative plural
- protégeaient imperfect indicative plural
- protégeai first-person historic indicative
- protégeas historic indicative past
- protégea historic indicative past
- protégeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce protéger?
- /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/
- \pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
- [pʁɔ.te.ʒe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to protéger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is protéger in French?
protéger appears 58 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).