tarer
French, verb/ta.ʁe/
tarer is a French verb meaning “to spoil; to tarnish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer de la tare, du déchet ; gâter, corrompre”.
What does tarer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spoil; to tarnish
- 2
to tare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer de la tare, du déchet ; gâter, corrompre. 2. Imposer la valeur zéro sur une balance alors qu'il y a un contenant dessus, pour ne peser que le contenu. 3. Peser un emballage ou un véhicule de transport, etc., alors qu'il est vide, avant d’y mettre une marchandise, pour pouvoir obtenir le poids net de cette marchandise, par différence entre les pesées. 4. Régler un appareil de mesure pour qu'il indique une valeur nulle sous des conditions précisées.
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 tarer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tarant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- taré participle past
- tare first-person indicative present
- tares indicative present second-person
- tarons first-person indicative plural
- tarez indicative plural present
- tarent indicative plural present
- tarais first-person imperfect indicative
- tarait imperfect indicative singular
- tarions first-person imperfect indicative
- tariez imperfect indicative plural
- taraient imperfect indicative plural
- tarai first-person historic indicative
- taras historic indicative past
- tara historic indicative past
- tarâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tarer?
- /ta.ʁe/
- \ta.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tarer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tarer in French?
tarer appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).