tempêter
French, verb/tɑ̃.pɛ.te/
tempêter is spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tempêter is a French verb meaning “to rant, to rave, kick up a fuss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un grand bruit par mécontentement”.
What does tempêter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rant, to rave, kick up a fuss
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un grand bruit par mécontentement. 2. Faire tempête.
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 tempêter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tempêtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tempêté participle past
- tempête first-person indicative present
- tempêtes indicative present second-person
- tempêtons first-person indicative plural
- tempêtez indicative plural present
- tempêtent indicative plural present
- tempêtais first-person imperfect indicative
- tempêtait imperfect indicative singular
- tempêtions first-person imperfect indicative
- tempêtiez imperfect indicative plural
- tempêtaient imperfect indicative plural
- tempêtai first-person historic indicative
- tempêtas historic indicative past
- tempêta historic indicative past
- tempêtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tempêter?
- /tɑ̃.pɛ.te/
- /tɑ̃.pe.te/
- \tɑ̃.pe.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 tempêter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tempêter in French?
tempêter appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).