perdre

Inherited from Old Catalan perdre, from Latin perdere.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɛr.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɛɾ.ðɾe], [ˈpɛ.ðɾe]

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perdre (first-person singular present perdo, first-person singular preterite perdí, past participle perdut)

1. (transitive) to lose
2. (reflexive) to get lost; to disappear

   Estàs segur que no ens hem perdut? Amb aquesta boira no es veu res!

   Are you sure we haven't gotten lost? You can't see anything in this fog!

3. (transitive) to miss (as in to miss a train, a film etc.)

• perdedor
• perdre els estreps
• pèrdua

• “perdre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “perdre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “perdre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perdre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French perdre, from Old French perdre, from Latin perdere.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁdʁ/

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perdre

1. (transitive) to lose (be unable to find)

   Synonym: égarer

   Antonym: trouver

   J'ai perdu les clés, mais un de mes amis les a trouvées.

   I lost my keys, but one of my friends found them.

2. (ambitransitive) to lose (not win)

   Antonym: gagner

3. (reflexive) to get lost

   Ils se sont perdus dans la forêt dense.

   They got lost in the dense forest.

4. (transitive) to waste, to make bad use of something

   Je crois que la journée est trop belle pour qu'on la perde.

   I think the day is too nice to waste.

   • 1943, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, chapter XXI, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 83:

     C'est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.

     It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

• perdant
• perdition
• perte
• éperdre

• Saint Dominican Creole French: perdi
  • Haitian Creole: pèdi

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

From Old French perdre.

perdre

1. (transitive) to lose

• French: perdre

From Latin perdere.

perdre

1. (transitive) to lose (be unable to find)
2. (ambitransitive) to lose (not win)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• (antonym(s) of “be unable to find”): trover
• (antonym(s) of “not win”): gaaingnier

• Middle French: perdre
  • French: perdre
• Norman: pèrdre
• Picard: perde
• Walloon: piede

From Latin perdere.

perdre

1. to lose (no longer possess)

• Occitan: pèrdre, pèrder

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “perdere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 221