quitter
French, verb/ki.te/
quitter is spelled Q-U-I-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written French, the 1,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quitter is a French verb meaning “to leave, to quit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui”.
What does quitter mean in English?
verb
- 1
obsoleteto discharge somebody from an obligation
- 2
to leave, to quit
- 3
to part with somebody, to leave somebody
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui. 2. Se retirer de quelque part. 3. Abandonner une chose, y renoncer, cesser de s’y appliquer, de s’y adonner. Se désister de quelque chose, y renoncer. 4. Sortir ; s'éloigner.
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 quitter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- quittant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- quitté participle past
- quitte first-person indicative present
- quittes indicative present second-person
- quittons first-person indicative plural
- quittez indicative plural present
- quittent indicative plural present
- quittais first-person imperfect indicative
- quittait imperfect indicative singular
- quittions first-person imperfect indicative
- quittiez imperfect indicative plural
- quittaient imperfect indicative plural
- quittai first-person historic indicative
- quittas historic indicative past
- quitta historic indicative past
- quittâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce quitter?
- /ki.te/
- \ki.te\
- [ki.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to quitter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is quitter in French?
quitter appears 55 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).