balader
French, verb/ba.la.de/
balader is spelled B-A-L-A-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balader is a French verb meaning “to stroll, walk around” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se promener”.
What does balader mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stroll, walk around
- 2
to give someone the runaround
- 3
to go for a walk, to trail
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se promener. 2. Faire faire une promenade, une balade à quelqu’un. 3. Faire croire des choses fausses à quelqu’un. 4. Se promener.
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 balader
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- baladant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- baladé participle past
- balade first-person indicative present
- balades indicative present second-person
- baladons first-person indicative plural
- baladez indicative plural present
- baladent indicative plural present
- baladais first-person imperfect indicative
- baladait imperfect indicative singular
- baladions first-person imperfect indicative
- baladiez imperfect indicative plural
- baladaient imperfect indicative plural
- baladai first-person historic indicative
- baladas historic indicative past
- balada historic indicative past
- baladâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balader?
- /ba.la.de/
- \ba.la.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is balader in French?
balader appears 5.4 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).