prétendre
Meaning
- to claim, to allege
- to expect, to consider necessary
- to aim at, to set one's sights on
- to claim
- to pretend
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pʁe.tɑ̃dʁ/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pretendre, from Old French pretendre, a borrowing from Latin praetendere.
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