prouve

Prouve is a present-tense form of the French verb prouver, meaning to prove or to demonstrate. In modern French, prouver is an -er verb, and prouve appears as the third-person singular present indicative form (il/elle prouve) and as the second-person singular affirmative imperative (Prouve!). The full present tense forms are: je prouve, tu prouves, il/elle prouve, nous prouvons, vous prouvez, ils/elles prouvent. The past participle is prouvé and the present participle is prouvant.

Etymology traces prouver to Latin probare, meaning to test or approve, via Old French prover and later French prouver. The related noun preuve means proof or evidence, sharing the same root.

Usage and meaning: prouve is used to indicate that someone demonstrates the truth of a claim through evidence or reasoning. Examples include scientific or logical assertions, where one prouve a hypothesis with data, or in everyday speech, where an argument is prouvé through examples. In legal and mathematical contexts, prouver takes on specialized senses aligned with establishing truth or validity; the noun preuve is commonly used to refer to evidence presented in support of a claim, while prouvé (past participle) and prouvant (present participle) appear in compound tenses and descriptive phrases.

Pratique and related forms: Prouver yields related adjectives such as prouvable (provable) and nouns like preuve (proof). The term is widely used across French-language texts to discuss verification, demonstration, and the establishment of facts.