attendre
French, verb/a.tɑ̃dʁ/
attendre is a French verb meaning “to wait for, to await” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un”.
What does attendre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wait for, to await
Je l'attends.
- 2
to expect
On attendait mieux de toi.
- 3
to expect
Je m'attendais à pire.
- 4
alternative form of entendre, to hear
Quand t'étais petit, t'attendais le français à la Messe ou a l'église?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ne pas bouger, rester là où l’on est pour la venue de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un. 2. Différer une action jusqu’à une limite temporelle. 3. Être prêt ou préparé pour une action. 4. Souhaiter ou se préparer à la survenue d’un événement.
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 attendre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attendant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attendu participle past
- attends first-person indicative present
- attend indicative present singular
- attendons first-person indicative plural
- attendez indicative plural present
- attendent indicative plural present
- attendais first-person imperfect indicative
- attendait imperfect indicative singular
- attendions first-person imperfect indicative
- attendiez imperfect indicative plural
- attendaient imperfect indicative plural
- attendis first-person historic indicative
- attendit historic indicative past
- attendîmes first-person historic indicative
- attendîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attendre?
- /a.tɑ̃dʁ/
- \a.tɑ̃dʁ\
- [a.tɑ̃dʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to attendre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attendre in French?
attendre appears 105 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).