animé
French, noun
animé is spelled A-N-I-M-É (5 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animé is a French masculine noun meaning “anime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of animer. Without its accent, anime is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être humain ou animal”.
What does animé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
alive
- 2
animated
- 3
lively
noun
- 1
masculineanime
verb
- 1
past participle of animer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Doué d’esprit ou capable d'agir, en particulier de se mouvoir ; animal ; qui a un vécu, une vie de l'esprit. 2. Mu par. 3. Excité, actif. 4. Qualifie un genre grammatical propre aux sujets doués de vie, par opposition aux choses inanimées (en français : à qui penses-tu ? à quoi penses-tu ?).
noun: 1. Être humain ou animal.
noun: 1. Résine d’un jaune de soufre et très odorante, qui découle d’incisions faites au tronc du courbaril.
noun: 1. Dessin animé japonais.
noun: 1. Petite cuirasse composée de lames de métal, utilisée au Moyen Âge.
noun: 1. Dessin animé japonais.
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 animé
- animée feminine
- animés masculine plural
- animées feminine plural
- anime
- animes plural
- animé
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to animé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is animé in French?
animé 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).