ardre
French, verb/aʁdʁ/
ardre is spelled A-R-D-R-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 159,320th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ardre is a French verb meaning “to burn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Brûler, être en feu”.
What does ardre mean in English?
verb
- 1
archaicto burn
- 2
archaicto consume
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Brûler, être en feu.
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 ardre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ardu participle past
- ards first-person indicative present
- ard indicative present singular
- ardons first-person indicative plural
- ardez indicative plural present
- ardent indicative plural present
- ardais first-person imperfect indicative
- ardait imperfect indicative singular
- ardions first-person imperfect indicative
- ardiez imperfect indicative plural
- ardaient imperfect indicative plural
- ardis first-person historic indicative
- ardit historic indicative past
- ardîmes first-person historic indicative
- ardîtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ardre?
- /aʁdʁ/
- \aʁdʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ardre in French?
ardre appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).