atténuer
French, verb/a.te.nɥe/
atténuer is spelled A-T-T-É-N-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,436th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atténuer is a French verb meaning “to attenuate; to mitigate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre moins fort, amoindrir”.
What does atténuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to attenuate; to mitigate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre moins fort, amoindrir. 2. Rendre moins grave.
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 atténuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- atténuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- atténué participle past
- atténue first-person indicative present
- atténues indicative present second-person
- atténuons first-person indicative plural
- atténuez indicative plural present
- atténuent indicative plural present
- atténuais first-person imperfect indicative
- atténuait imperfect indicative singular
- atténuions first-person imperfect indicative
- atténuiez imperfect indicative plural
- atténuaient imperfect indicative plural
- atténuai first-person historic indicative
- atténuas historic indicative past
- atténua historic indicative past
- atténuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atténuer?
- /a.te.nɥe/
- \a.te.nɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to atténuer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is atténuer in French?
atténuer appears 3.5 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).