adopté
French, noun
adopté is a French masculine noun meaning “male adoptee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of adopter. Without its accent, adopte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui est légalement adoptée”.
What does adopté mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemale adoptee
verb
- 1
past participle of adopter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est légalement adopté.
noun: 1. Personne qui est légalement adoptée.
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 adopté
- adoptés plural
- adoptée feminine
- adoptées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to adopté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adopté in French?
adopté appears 25 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).