allumer
French, verb/a.ly.me/
allumer is spelled A-L-L-U-M-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written French, the 8,354th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Allumer is a French verb meaning “to light, to set alight (a candle, a fire, a cigar)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enflammer ; mettre le feu à”.
What does allumer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to light, to set alight (a candle, a fire, a cigar)
allumer une bougie, un feu, un cigare
- 2
to turn on (the light, a lightbulb, the television, the heating)
allumer la lumière, une ampoule, la télévision, le chauffage
- 3
to start, to turn on (electronic devices with screens)
allumer un ordinateur, un smartphone
- 4
colloquialto arouse, to turn on
- 5
to flare up
La bougie, un feu s'alluma.
- 6
to go on
La lumière, l'ampoule, la télévision, le chauffage s'alluma.
- 7
to start up, to begin to operate
L'ordinateur, le smartphone s'allume par ce bouton.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enflammer ; mettre le feu à. 2. Faire de la lumière, à l’aide d’une lampe ou d’un éclairage artificiel. 3. Mettre en marche un appareil électrique. 4. Susciter, exciter, éveiller.
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 allumer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- allumant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- allumé participle past
- allume first-person indicative present
- allumes indicative present second-person
- allumons first-person indicative plural
- allumez indicative plural present
- allument indicative plural present
- allumais first-person imperfect indicative
- allumait imperfect indicative singular
- allumions first-person imperfect indicative
- allumiez imperfect indicative plural
- allumaient imperfect indicative plural
- allumai first-person historic indicative
- allumas historic indicative past
- alluma historic indicative past
- allumâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce allumer?
- /a.ly.me/
- \a.ly.me\
- [a.ly.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to allumer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is allumer in French?
allumer appears 7.4 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).