perdez

Perdez is a conjugated form of the French verb perdre, meaning to lose or to waste. In standard usage, perdez appears as the present indicative form for the second person plural or as the imperative form used to address multiple people or a formal “you.” The base infinitive is perdre, and the corresponding past participle is perdu. Pronunciation follows the typical French patterns for -re verbs.

Etymology and related forms: perdre derives from Latin perdere, meaning to ruin or to lose. Related terms exist across Romance languages (for example, Spanish perder, Italian perdere), reflecting a common Latin root. The word perdez itself is not a standalone noun or proper name in common French usage; it is primarily a grammatical form.

Usage and examples: Perdez is encountered in everyday French in present-tense statements directed at “you” plural or formal “you,” such as Vous perdez vos clés (You are losing your keys / You have lost your keys). It also appears in imperative form to give a command to multiple people, as in Perdez du temps? contexts; though the imperative more commonly uses the stem perdre in the forms Perdez or Perdons (we lose). The verb also participates in common expressions with perdre: perdre du poids (to lose weight), perdre la face (to lose face), perdre patience (to lose patience), perdre espoir (to lose hope). The past tense forms use perdu, for example j’ai perdu mes lunettes (I lost my glasses).

Conjugation notes: Present tense vous perdez; imperative Perdez; present participle perdant; past participle perdu. As with other -re verbs, perdre forms integrate with auxiliary verbs to form compound tenses (j’ai perdu, ils ont perdu).

See also: perdre, perdre la tête, perdre du temps.