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réserve

French, noun

réserve is spelled R-É-S-E-R-V-E (7 letters) and appears 54 times per million words in written French, the 1,564th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réserve is a French feminine noun meaning “reservation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of réserver. With an accent, réservé is a different word: “reserved, booked”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de réserver, de mettre de côté”.

What does réserve mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininereservation

    sous réserve des conditions suivantes

  2. 2

    femininereserve; stock

  3. 3

    femininestockroom

  4. 4

    femininereserve (body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; force or body of troops kept for an exigency)

  5. 5

    femininespare (bowling)

  6. 6

    femininereserve; reservation (land allocated for indigenous peoples)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

adjective

as réservé
  1. 1

    reserved, booked

  2. 2

    discreet, reserved

  3. 3

    guarded, cautious

verb

as réservé
  1. 1

    past participle of réserver

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Discret, timide. 2. Qui ne se prononce pas encore, encore réticent. 3. Gardé, conservé pour un usage particulier. 4. En termes de procédure,

noun: 1. Action de réserver, de mettre de côté. 2. Restriction en vue de certaines éventualités qu’on ne peut prévoir ou qu’on ne veut pas préciser. 3. Absence de certitude ou de garantie. 4. Choses réservées.

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 réserve

  • réservée feminine
  • réservés masculine plural
  • réservées feminine plural
  • réserves plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to réserve

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is réserve in French?

réserve appears 54 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).

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