ânonner
French, verb/a.nɔ.ne/
ânonner is spelled Â-N-O-N-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ânonner is a French verb meaning “to stumble through (a reading, lesson etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre bas un ânon, pour une ânesse”.
What does ânonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stumble through (a reading, lesson etc.)
- 2
to drone on, to recite monotonously
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre bas un ânon, pour une ânesse. 2. Ne lire, ne réciter, ne répondre qu’avec peine, qu’en hésitant.
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 ânonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ânonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ânonné participle past
- ânonne first-person indicative present
- ânonnes indicative present second-person
- ânonnons first-person indicative plural
- ânonnez indicative plural present
- ânonnent indicative plural present
- ânonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- ânonnait imperfect indicative singular
- ânonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- ânonniez imperfect indicative plural
- ânonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- ânonnai first-person historic indicative
- ânonnas historic indicative past
- ânonna historic indicative past
- ânonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ânonner?
- /a.nɔ.ne/
- /ɑ.nɔ.ne/
- \ɑ.nɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ânonner in French?
ânonner appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).