entendre

entendre

1. Only used in double entendre, single entendre, and triple entendre.

• entender, renneted

Inherited from Latin intendere (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈten.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [enˈten.dɾe]

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entendre (first-person singular present entenc, first-person singular preterite entenguí, past participle entès); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to understand

   Synonym: comprendre

   Antonym: malentendre

• “entendre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “entendre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “entendre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “entendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French entendre and Old French entendre, from Latin intendere (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”). Cognate with Spanish entender, English intend.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ/

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entendre

1. to hear
2. (intransitive) to be able to hear
3. (literary) to listen to
4. (formal) to mean

   Synonym: (informal) vouloir dire

   Qu’entendez-vous par là ? ― What do you mean by that?

   Qu’entendait-il par « attristé par la tranquilité » ? ― What does he mean by "saddened by the tranquility"?

5. (reflexive) to agree with each other
6. (reflexive) to have good relations with; to get on; to get along

   Je m’entends bien avec elle. ― I get along well with her.

   Si seulement mes enfants s’entendaient ! ― If only my kids got along!

7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be good or competent at something

   s’y entendre en […] ― to be good at […]

8. (rare) to desire; to wish; to intend

   comme je l’entends ― as I wish

   J’entends bien régler cette question une bonne fois pour toutes. ― I fully intend to solve this issue once and for all.

9. (dated) to demand
10. (dated) to know
11. (archaic) to understand

• double entendre

• “entendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of “entendre”

From Old French entendre.

entendre

1. to hear
2. to understand

• French: entendre

• ouyr (“to hear”)

• entèndre (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan, from Latin intendere, present active infinitive of intendō (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”).

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entendre

1. to hear
2. to understand

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From Latin intendere, present active infinitive of intendō (“to turn one’s attention, to strain”).

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /enˈtendɾə/
• IPA^(key): /anˈtandɾə/

entendre

1. to hear
2. to understand
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 186 of this essay:

     tu dois entendre que matiere de lepre c’est humeur melencolique adusté

     you must understand that the matter that makes up leprosy is hot melancholic humor

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.

• (hear): oïr

• → Middle English: entenden, intenden
  • English: intend
• Middle French: entendre
  • French: entendre