prétendre

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French pretendre, from Old French pretendre, a borrowing from Latin praetendere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pʁe.tɑ̃dʁ/ === Verb === prétendre to claim, to allege to expect, to consider necessary (intransitive) to aim at, to set one's sights on [with à] (reflexive) to claim (Louisiana) to pretend ==== Usage notes ==== This is a faux ami, and does not mean "pretend" in Standard French. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== prétention ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: pretenderen → German: prätendieren → Romanian: pretinde === Further reading === “prétendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012