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abandonné

French, noun

abandonné is spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N-N-É (9 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,324th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abandonné is a French masculine noun meaning “abandonee, one who is abandoned” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of abandonner. Without its accent, abandonne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui a été laissée seule”.

What does abandonné mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    given up, abandoned

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabandonee, one who is abandoned

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of abandonner

verb

as abandonne
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui a été laissé seul. 2. Qui est laissé à l’abandon. 3. Qui manifeste un certain laisser-aller.

noun: 1. Personne qui a été laissée seule.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of abandonné

  • abandonnée feminine
  • abandonnés masculine plural
  • abandonnées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to abandonné

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is abandonné in French?

abandonné appears 23 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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