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parler

French, noun/paʁ.le/

parler is a French masculine noun meaning “parlance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Forme de langage particulière à une catégorie sociale, une profession, une région…”.

What does parler mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to speak, talk

    Il a commencé à parler à l’âge de quatre ans.

  2. 2

    to be able to communicate in a language; to speak

    Elle parle couramment français.

  3. 3

    to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name

    armes parlantes

noun

  1. 1

    masculineparlance

    se parler à soi-même

  2. 2

    masculinevernacular, dialect

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. User de la faculté du langage ; proférer, prononcer, articuler des mots. 2. Imiter le langage de l’homme, en parlant de certains oiseaux comme les perroquets, les sansonnets, les geais, les pies, etc. 3. Exprimer sa pensée en articulant les mots d’une langue. 4. S’exprimer sur certains sujets.

noun: 1. Forme de langage particulière à une catégorie sociale, une profession, une région…

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 parler

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • parlant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • parlé participle past
  • parle first-person indicative present
  • paʁl first-person indicative present
  • parles indicative present second-person
  • parlons first-person indicative plural
  • parlez indicative plural present
  • parlent indicative plural present
  • parlais first-person imperfect indicative
  • parlait imperfect indicative singular
  • parlions first-person imperfect indicative
  • parliez imperfect indicative plural
  • parlaient imperfect indicative plural
  • parlai first-person historic indicative
  • parlas historic indicative past
  • parla historic indicative past

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce parler?

  • /paʁ.le/
  • \paʁ.le\
  • [paʁ.le]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to parler

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is parler in French?

parler appears 331 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).