bananer
French, verb/ba.na.ne/
bananer is spelled B-A-N-A-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written French, the 304,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bananer is a French verb meaning “to make a mistake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Escroquer, tromper”.
What does bananer mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangto make a mistake
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Escroquer, tromper. 2. Échouer, se faire recaler.
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 bananer
- se bananer infinitive reflexive
- s'être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction reflexive
- se bananant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- banané participle past reflexive
- me banane first-person indicative present
- te bananes indicative present reflexive
- se banane indicative present reflexive
- nous bananons first-person indicative plural
- vous bananez indicative plural present
- se bananent indicative plural present
- me bananais first-person imperfect indicative
- te bananais imperfect indicative reflexive
- se bananait imperfect indicative reflexive
- nous bananions first-person imperfect indicative
- vous bananiez imperfect indicative plural
- se bananaient imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bananer?
- /ba.na.ne/
- \ba.na.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bananer in French?
bananer appears about once in every 95 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).