amuser
French, verb/a.my.ze/
amuser is spelled A-M-U-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amuser is a French verb meaning “to amuse, to entertain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Divertir par des choses agréables”.
What does amuser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to amuse, to entertain
- 2
to have fun, to enjoy oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Divertir par des choses agréables. 2. Faire perdre le temps ; distraire. 3. Repaître de vaines promesses, de fausses espérances. 4. S’occuper par simple divertissement.
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 amuser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- amusant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- amusé participle past
- amuse first-person indicative present
- amuses indicative present second-person
- amusons first-person indicative plural
- amusez indicative plural present
- amusent indicative plural present
- amusais first-person imperfect indicative
- amusait imperfect indicative singular
- amusions first-person imperfect indicative
- amusiez imperfect indicative plural
- amusaient imperfect indicative plural
- amusai first-person historic indicative
- amusas historic indicative past
- amusa historic indicative past
- amusâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amuser?
- /a.my.ze/
- \a.my.ze\
- [a.my.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amuser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amuser in French?
amuser appears 15 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).