traire
French, verb/tʁɛʁ/
traire is spelled T-R-A-I-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 39,702nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Traire is a French verb meaning “to milk (a cow, etc)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer sur le pis des vaches ou d’autres mammifères domestiques femelles pour en extraire le lait”.
What does traire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to milk (a cow, etc)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer sur le pis des vaches ou d’autres mammifères domestiques femelles pour en extraire le lait. 2. Dépouiller financièrement.
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 traire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trait participle past
- trais first-person indicative present
- trayons first-person indicative plural
- trayez indicative plural present
- traient indicative plural present
- trayais first-person imperfect indicative
- trayait imperfect indicative singular
- trayions first-person imperfect indicative
- trayiez imperfect indicative plural
- trayaient imperfect indicative plural
- trayai first-person historic indicative
- trayas historic indicative past
- traya historic indicative past
- trayâmes first-person historic indicative
- trayâtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce traire?
- /tʁɛʁ/
- \tʁɛʁ\
- [tʁɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to traire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is traire in French?
traire appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).