ajourner
French, verb/a.ʒuʁ.ne/
ajourner is spelled A-J-O-U-R-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ajourner is a French verb meaning “postpone, adjourn, put off (an event)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remettre à un autre jour la poursuite d’une affaire”.
What does ajourner mean in English?
verb
- 1
postpone, adjourn, put off (an event)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remettre à un autre jour la poursuite d’une affaire. 2. Renvoyer, en matière de délibération, à un certain jour ou à un temps indéterminé. 3. Assigner quelqu’un à un certain jour en justice.
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 ajourner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ajournant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ajourné participle past
- ajourne first-person indicative present
- ajournes indicative present second-person
- ajournons first-person indicative plural
- ajournez indicative plural present
- ajournent indicative plural present
- ajournais first-person imperfect indicative
- ajournait imperfect indicative singular
- ajournions first-person imperfect indicative
- ajourniez imperfect indicative plural
- ajournaient imperfect indicative plural
- ajournai first-person historic indicative
- ajournas historic indicative past
- ajourna historic indicative past
- ajournâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ajourner?
- /a.ʒuʁ.ne/
- \a.ʒuʁ.ne\
- [a.ʒuʁ.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 ajourner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ajourner in French?
ajourner appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).