Repéré

Repéré is the past participle of the French verb repérer, which means to locate, identify, detect, or notice something or someone. In everyday French, repérer is used transitively to locate or spot, and its compound forms appear in tenses such as “nous avons repéré” (we have identified/located). As an adjective, repéré agrees with the noun it modifies and designates something that has been identified or located: “un point repéré sur la carte” or “une zone repérée pour le développement.”

The term is used across contexts: in navigation, surveying, or cartography to denote locations; in surveillance or journalism to mean that a subject or feature has been spotted; and in everyday speech to mean simply noticing something in a crowd, e.g. “Il m’a repéré dans la foule.”

In some contexts, repéré also appears in phrasal usage meaning “to identify issues or defects”—“repérer des erreurs”—often in quality control or data analysis.

Grammatical note: repéré can appear as a participle and as an adjective. When used adjectivally, it agrees in gender and number: repéré, repérés, repérée, repérées. Related forms include repérer (the verb) and repère (the noun meaning a landmark or reference point).