absorber
French, verb/ap.sɔʁ.be/
absorber is spelled A-B-S-O-R-B-E-R (8 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absorber is a French verb meaning “to absorb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire pénétrer en soi, assimiler”.
What does absorber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to absorb
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire pénétrer en soi, assimiler. 2. Se dit dans un sens analogue en parlant des couleurs, des sons, des odeurs, des saveurs. 3. Pomper un fluide. 4. Consumer entièrement, et, en ce sens, il se dit principalement en parlant des biens, des richesses, de l’argent.
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 absorber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- absorbant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- absorbé participle past
- absorbe first-person indicative present
- absorbes indicative present second-person
- absorbons first-person indicative plural
- absorbez indicative plural present
- absorbent indicative plural present
- absorbais first-person imperfect indicative
- absorbait imperfect indicative singular
- absorbions first-person imperfect indicative
- absorbiez imperfect indicative plural
- absorbaient imperfect indicative plural
- absorbai first-person historic indicative
- absorbas historic indicative past
- absorba historic indicative past
- absorbâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce absorber?
- /ap.sɔʁ.be/
- \ap.sɔʁ.be\
- [ap.sɔʁ.be]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to absorber
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is absorber in French?
absorber appears 4.7 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).