triste
French, adjective/tʁist/
triste is spelled T-R-I-S-T-E (6 letters) and appears 55 times per million words in written French, the 1,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Triste is a French adjective meaning “sad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est affligé, qui éprouve du chagrin”.
What does triste mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sad
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est affligé, qui éprouve du chagrin. 2. Qui est mélancolique ; qui n’a pas de gaieté. 3. Qui marque de la tristesse, du chagrin, de la mélancolie. 4. Se dit également de ce qui est inspiré par le chagrin ou par la mélancolie.
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 triste
- tristes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce triste?
- /tʁist/
- \tʁist\
- [t̪χist̪]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to triste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is triste in French?
triste appears 55 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).