prouver
French, verb/pʁu.ve/
prouver is spelled P-R-O-U-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears 34 times per million words in written French, the 2,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prouver is a French verb meaning “to prove” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Établir la vérité de quelque chose par le raisonnement ou par le témoignage”.
What does prouver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to prove
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Établir la vérité de quelque chose par le raisonnement ou par le témoignage. 2. Montrer, indiquer, marquer.
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 prouver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- prouvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- prouvé participle past
- prouve first-person indicative present
- prouves indicative present second-person
- prouvons first-person indicative plural
- prouvez indicative plural present
- prouvent indicative plural present
- prouvais first-person imperfect indicative
- prouvait imperfect indicative singular
- prouvions first-person imperfect indicative
- prouviez imperfect indicative plural
- prouvaient imperfect indicative plural
- prouvai first-person historic indicative
- prouvas historic indicative past
- prouva historic indicative past
- prouvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prouver?
- /pʁu.ve/
- \pʁu.ve\
- [pʁu.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to prouver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prouver in French?
prouver appears 34 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).