retardé
French, verb
retardé is spelled R-E-T-A-R-D-É (7 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written French, the 15,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retardé is a French verb meaning “past participle of retarder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, retarde is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does retardé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of retarder
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Remis à un autre temps. 2. Se dit du mouvement, lorsque l’action continue de la force ou des forces qui sollicitent le mobile tend à le ralentir. 3. Qui est en retard dans son développement intellectuel ou psychomoteur.
noun: 1. Personne qui est en retard dans son développement intellectuel ou psychomoteur.
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 retardé
- retardée feminine
- retardés masculine plural
- retardées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to retardé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is retardé in French?
retardé appears 3.1 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).