traduire
French, verb/tʁa.dɥiʁ/
traduire is spelled T-R-A-D-U-I-R-E (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,648th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traduire is a French verb meaning “to translate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire la traduction d’un texte ou de paroles ou de tout document depuis une langue vers une autre langue”.
What does traduire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to translate
- 2
to summon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire la traduction d’un texte ou de paroles ou de tout document depuis une langue vers une autre langue. 2. Transférer d’un lieu à un autre. 3. Envoyer quelqu'un devant la justice, afin qu'il soit jugé. 4. Expliquer ; interpréter ; exprimer.
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 traduire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- traduisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- traduit participle past
- traduis first-person indicative present
- traduisons first-person indicative plural
- traduisez indicative plural present
- traduisent indicative plural present
- traduisais first-person imperfect indicative
- traduisait imperfect indicative singular
- traduisions first-person imperfect indicative
- traduisiez imperfect indicative plural
- traduisaient imperfect indicative plural
- traduisis first-person historic indicative
- traduisit historic indicative past
- traduisîmes first-person historic indicative
- traduisîtes historic indicative past
- traduisirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traduire?
- /tʁa.dɥiʁ/
- \tʁa.dɥiʁ\
- [t̪ʁ̥a.d̪ɥiːʁ̥]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to traduire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traduire in French?
traduire appears 13 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).