prétendre

Meaning

  1. to claim, to allege
  2. to expect, to consider necessary
  3. to aim at, to set one's sights on
  4. to claim
  5. to pretend

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pʁe.tɑ̃dʁ/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pretendre, from Old French pretendre, a borrowing from Latin praetendere.

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