quarter
French, noun/kaʁ.te/
quarter is spelled Q-U-A-R-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 47,811th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quarter is a French masculine noun meaning “quarter (old measure of corn)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce d'un quart de dollar américain, soit 25 cents”.
What does quarter mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinequarter (old measure of corn)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce d'un quart de dollar américain, soit 25 cents.
verb: 1. Mettre en quarte.
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 quarter
- quarters plural
- avoir quarté infinitive past
- en quartant gerund present
- en ayant quarté gerund past
- quartant participle present
- quarté participle past
- je quarte indicative present
- tu quartes indicative present
- il/elle/on quarte indicative present
- nous quartons indicative present
- vous quartez indicative present
- ils/elles quartent indicative present
- j’ai quarté indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as quarté indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a quarté indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons quarté indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez quarté indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont quarté indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quarter?
- /kaʁ.te/
- \kwaʁ.tɛʁ\
- \kaʁ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is quarter in French?
quarter appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).