rester
French, verb/ʁɛs.te/
rester is a French verb meaning “to stay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état”.
What does rester mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stay
On est restés à l'hôtel pendant une bonne part du séjour, on était tous malades.
- 2
to remain, be left over
Il reste un peu de riz dans le frigo, si tu veux.
- 3
to stay, to remain (to continue to have a particular quality)
Elle est restée comme elle était quand je l'ai rencontrée.
- 4
rareto rest
- 5
to live
Moi, je reste au Québec.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état. 2. Continuer à exister ; perdurer ; persister. 3. Subsister par rapport à quelque chose qui a disparu. 4. Continuer à être, en parlant de sentiments, de comportements.
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 rester
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- restant gerund participle present
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- resté participle past
- reste first-person indicative present
- restes indicative present second-person
- restons first-person indicative plural
- restez indicative plural present
- restent indicative plural present
- restais first-person imperfect indicative
- restait imperfect indicative singular
- restions first-person imperfect indicative
- restiez imperfect indicative plural
- restaient imperfect indicative plural
- restai first-person historic indicative
- restas historic indicative past
- resta historic indicative past
- restâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rester?
- /ʁɛs.te/
- \ʁɛs.te\
- \ʁes.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rester
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rester in French?
rester appears 126 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).