priver
French, verb/pʁi.ve/
priver is a French verb meaning “to deprive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ôter à quelqu’un ce qu’il a, ce qu’il possède, l’empêcher de jouir de quelque avantage qu’il avait ou pouvait…”.
What does priver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deprive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ôter à quelqu’un ce qu’il a, ce qu’il possède, l’empêcher de jouir de quelque avantage qu’il avait ou pouvait avoir, le dépouiller de quelque chose qui lui appartient. 2. Retirer à quelqu'un ce qu’il désire. 3. Se refuser un plaisir, un désir, un avantage ; s’imposer des privations. 4. S’abstenir de réagir ou de faire quelque chose.
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 priver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- privant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- privé participle past
- prive first-person indicative present
- prives indicative present second-person
- privons first-person indicative plural
- privez indicative plural present
- privent indicative plural present
- privais first-person imperfect indicative
- privait imperfect indicative singular
- privions first-person imperfect indicative
- priviez imperfect indicative plural
- privaient imperfect indicative plural
- privai first-person historic indicative
- privas historic indicative past
- priva historic indicative past
- privâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce priver?
- /pʁi.ve/
- \pʁi.ve\
- [pʁi.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to priver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is priver in French?
priver appears 6.8 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).