aborder
French, verb/a.bɔʁ.de/
aborder is spelled A-B-O-R-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aborder is a French verb meaning “to deal with; to tackle; to approach a problem, situation or topic; to broach a subject” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arriver au bord, prendre terre”.
What does aborder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to deal with; to tackle; to approach a problem, situation or topic; to broach a subject
aborder un sujet sensible
- 2
to approach or meet somebody
- 3
to place side to side
- 4
to reach, especially with a boat
- 5
rareto attack, especially a ship: to board an enemy ship in order to capture it
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arriver au bord, prendre terre. 2. Atteindre, en parlant d’une côte. 3. Accéder à, en parlant d’un lieu. 4. Arriver dans, en parlant d’une portion remarquable de la route, souvent dangereuse.
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 aborder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- abordant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- abordé participle past
- aborde first-person indicative present
- abordes indicative present second-person
- abordons first-person indicative plural
- abordez indicative plural present
- abordent indicative plural present
- abordais first-person imperfect indicative
- abordait imperfect indicative singular
- abordions first-person imperfect indicative
- abordiez imperfect indicative plural
- abordaient imperfect indicative plural
- abordai first-person historic indicative
- abordas historic indicative past
- aborda historic indicative past
- abordâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aborder?
- /a.bɔʁ.de/
- \a.bɔʁ.de\
- [a.bɔʁ.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aborder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aborder in French?
aborder appears 13 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).