alimenter
French, verb/a.li.mɑ̃.te/
alimenter is spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alimenter is a French verb meaning “to feed, to give food to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nourrir ; pourvoir des aliments nécessaires”.
What does alimenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to feed, to give food to
- 2
to supply, to fund
- 3
to fuel, feed (e.g. an argument)
- 4
to eat, to feed
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Nourrir ; pourvoir des aliments nécessaires. 2. Pourvoir pour assurer le fonctionnement. 3. Entretenir quelque chose.
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 alimenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- alimentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- alimenté participle past
- alimente first-person indicative present
- alimentes indicative present second-person
- alimentons first-person indicative plural
- alimentez indicative plural present
- alimentent indicative plural present
- alimentais first-person imperfect indicative
- alimentait imperfect indicative singular
- alimentions first-person imperfect indicative
- alimentiez imperfect indicative plural
- alimentaient imperfect indicative plural
- alimentai first-person historic indicative
- alimentas historic indicative past
- alimenta historic indicative past
- alimentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alimenter?
- /a.li.mɑ̃.te/
- \a.li.mɑ̃.te\
- [a.li.mɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alimenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alimenter in French?
alimenter appears 8.3 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).