abandonner
French, verb/a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne/
abandonner is spelled A-B-A-N-D-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,391st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abandonner is a French verb meaning “to give up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ne plus vouloir de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un”.
What does abandonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to give up
- 2
to abandon, forsake
- 3
to give oneself (to someone)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ne plus vouloir de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un. 2. Remettre à la discrétion de quelqu’un, de quelque chose. 3. Laisser. 4. Laisser à l’abandon.
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 abandonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- abandonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- abandonné participle past
- abandonne first-person indicative present
- abandonnes indicative present second-person
- abandonnons first-person indicative plural
- abandonnez indicative plural present
- abandonnent indicative plural present
- abandonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- abandonnait imperfect indicative singular
- abandonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- abandonniez imperfect indicative plural
- abandonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- abandonnai first-person historic indicative
- abandonnas historic indicative past
- abandonna historic indicative past
- abandonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abandonner?
- /a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne/
- \a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne\
- [a.bɑ̃.dɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abandonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abandonner in French?
abandonner 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).