tercer
French, verb/tɛʁ.se/
tercer is spelled T-E-R-C-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tercer is a French verb meaning “to plough a third time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un troisième labour, une troisième façon à la vigne”.
What does tercer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plough a third time
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner un troisième labour, une troisième façon à la vigne.
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 tercer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- terçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tercé participle past
- terce first-person indicative present
- terces indicative present second-person
- terçons first-person indicative plural
- tercez indicative plural present
- tercent indicative plural present
- terçais first-person imperfect indicative
- terçait imperfect indicative singular
- tercions first-person imperfect indicative
- terciez imperfect indicative plural
- terçaient imperfect indicative plural
- terçai first-person historic indicative
- terças historic indicative past
- terça historic indicative past
- terçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tercer?
- /tɛʁ.se/
- \tɛʁ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tercer in French?
tercer appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).