péter

From pet +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /pe.te/
• Homophones: pétai, pété, pétée, pétées, pétés, pétez

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péter

1. (vulgar) to blow off, fart

   Synonyms: lâcher une caisse, lâcher une perle, lâcher Médor, lâcher une ruine

2. (slang) to break
3. (slang) to explode
   • 1995, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend ?”, in Paris sous les bombes, performed by Suprême NTM:

     Ça fait déjà des années que tout aurait dû péter / Dommage que l'unité n'ait été de notre côté

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This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written péter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written pèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

• “péter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• perte, prête, prêté