relater
French, verb/ʁə.la.te/
relater is spelled R-E-L-A-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,217th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relater is a French verb meaning “to relate, to recount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rapporter, mentionner, citer”.
What does relater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to relate, to recount
- 2
to account
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rapporter, mentionner, citer.
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 relater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- relatant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- relaté participle past
- relate first-person indicative present
- relates indicative present second-person
- relatons first-person indicative plural
- relatez indicative plural present
- relatent indicative plural present
- relatais first-person imperfect indicative
- relatait imperfect indicative singular
- relations first-person imperfect indicative
- relatiez imperfect indicative plural
- relataient imperfect indicative plural
- relatai first-person historic indicative
- relatas historic indicative past
- relata historic indicative past
- relatâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce relater?
- /ʁə.la.te/
- \ʁə.la.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 relater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is relater in French?
relater appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).