abonner
French, verb/a.bɔ.ne/
abonner is spelled A-B-O-N-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abonner is a French verb meaning “to subscribe somebody to a service; to take a subscription for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aborner, fixer par des bornes les limites d’un champ”.
What does abonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to subscribe somebody to a service; to take a subscription for
J'ai abonné ma sœur au câble
- 2
to subscribe to a service, publication, or social media account.
Je me suis abonné à plusieurs magazines
- 3
rareto become accustomed to or a regular of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aborner, fixer par des bornes les limites d’un champ. 2. Composer à un prix déterminé d’une taxe, d’une redevance casuelle. 3. Contracter un engagement.
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 abonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- abonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- abonné participle past
- abonne first-person indicative present
- abonnes indicative present second-person
- abonnons first-person indicative plural
- abonnez indicative plural present
- abonnent indicative plural present
- abonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- abonnait imperfect indicative singular
- abonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- abonniez imperfect indicative plural
- abonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- abonnai first-person historic indicative
- abonnas historic indicative past
- abonna historic indicative past
- abonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abonner?
- /a.bɔ.ne/
- \a.bɔ.ne\
- [sabɔne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abonner in French?
abonner appears 3.0 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).