béer
French, verb/be.e/
béer is spelled B-É-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Béer is a French verb meaning “to gape, yawn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir la bouche d’étonnement, d’admiration ou de curiosité, regarder avec étonnement”.
What does béer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gape, yawn
- 2
to be wide open
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir la bouche d’étonnement, d’admiration ou de curiosité, regarder avec étonnement. 2. Être grand ouvert, notamment en parlant d’une porte ou d’un trou.
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 béer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- béant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- béé participle past
- bée first-person indicative present
- bées indicative present second-person
- béons first-person indicative plural
- béez indicative plural present
- béent indicative plural present
- béais first-person imperfect indicative
- béait imperfect indicative singular
- béions first-person imperfect indicative
- béiez imperfect indicative plural
- béaient imperfect indicative plural
- béai first-person historic indicative
- béas historic indicative past
- béa historic indicative past
- béâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce béer?
- /be.e/
- \be.e\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to béer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is béer in French?
béer appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).