attribuer
French, verb/a.tʁi.bɥe/
attribuer is spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Attribuer is a French verb meaning “to grant, to award” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Conférer à quelqu’un un avantage, une prérogative, un emploi”.
What does attribuer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grant, to award
- 2
to give credit to, to recognize
- 3
to attribute to, to ascribe to
- 4
to take the credit for, to give oneself priority over others
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Conférer à quelqu’un un avantage, une prérogative, un emploi. 2. Imputer, à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose, un acte, lui prêter un mérite, etc. ; considérer que quelqu’un ou à quelque chose, est la cause, l’auteur où le principal instrument de quelque chose. 3. Affirmer qu’une personne, qu’une chose a une certaine qualité, un certain effet.
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 attribuer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- attribuant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- attribué participle past
- attribue first-person indicative present
- attribues indicative present second-person
- attribuons first-person indicative plural
- attribuez indicative plural present
- attribuent indicative plural present
- attribuais first-person imperfect indicative
- attribuait imperfect indicative singular
- attribuions first-person imperfect indicative
- attribuiez imperfect indicative plural
- attribuaient imperfect indicative plural
- attribuai first-person historic indicative
- attribuas historic indicative past
- attribua historic indicative past
- attribuâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce attribuer?
- /a.tʁi.bɥe/
- \a.tʁi.bɥe\
- [a.tʁi.bɥe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to attribuer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is attribuer in French?
attribuer appears 7.9 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).