retendre
French, verb/ʁə.tɑ̃dʁ/
retendre is spelled R-E-T-E-N-D-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Retendre is a French verb meaning “to re-tighten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tendre à nouveau ; tendre ce qui est détendu”.
What does retendre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to re-tighten
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tendre à nouveau ; tendre ce qui est détendu. 2. Tendre à nouveau ce qu’on avait déjà tendu à quelqu’un.
verb: 1. Réétendre, étendre une seconde fois. 2. Épandre, disperser de l’engrais. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
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 retendre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- retendant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- retendu participle past
- retends first-person indicative present
- retend indicative present singular
- retendons first-person indicative plural
- retendez indicative plural present
- retendent indicative plural present
- retendais first-person imperfect indicative
- retendait imperfect indicative singular
- retendions first-person imperfect indicative
- retendiez imperfect indicative plural
- retendaient imperfect indicative plural
- retendis first-person historic indicative
- retendit historic indicative past
- retendîmes first-person historic indicative
- retendîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce retendre?
- /ʁə.tɑ̃dʁ/
- \ʁə.tɑ̃dʁ\
- \ʁe.tɑ̃dʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is retendre in French?
retendre appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).