dictée

dictée

See also: dictee

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dik.te/

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Participle

dictée f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of dicter

Noun

dictée f (plural dictées)

1. dictation, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
2. dictation, an activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down

Descendants

• → Dutch: dictee
• → Turkish: dikte

Further reading

• “dictée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.