prate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun[edit]
prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
talk to little purpose
Verb[edit]
prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
- Dryden
- What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
- Dryden
Synonyms[edit]
- (speak (about unimportant matters)): blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, twaddle
Translations[edit]
to talk much, to chatter
References[edit]
- (etymology) prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
- (etymolohy) prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.
Anagrams[edit]
- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
prate
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
prate
- to talk
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of prate
Infinitive: prate | ||||||||
Present tense | Past tense | |||||||
person | singular | plural | singular | plural | ||||
1st | ik | praat | wy | prate | ik | prate | wy | praten |
2nd | do/dû | praatst | jimme | prate | do/dû | pratest | jimme | praten |
3rd | hy/sy | praat | hja | prate | hy/sy | prate | hja | praten |
Present participle | Imperative | Auxiliary | Past participle | |||||
pratend (pratende) | praat | hawwe | praat |
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