bidonner
French, verb/bi.dɔ.ne/
bidonner is spelled B-I-D-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bidonner is a French verb meaning “to fabricate, to make up (a story)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vider des bidons, boire généralement en abondance”.
What does bidonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fabricate, to make up (a story)
- 2
colloquialto laugh a lot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vider des bidons, boire généralement en abondance. 2. Rigoler, se marrer, s’amuser beaucoup.
verb: 1. Truquer. 2. Embobiner, tromper.
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 bidonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bidonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bidonné participle past
- bidonne first-person indicative present
- bidonnes indicative present second-person
- bidonnons first-person indicative plural
- bidonnez indicative plural present
- bidonnent indicative plural present
- bidonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- bidonnait imperfect indicative singular
- bidonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- bidonniez imperfect indicative plural
- bidonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- bidonnai first-person historic indicative
- bidonnas historic indicative past
- bidonna historic indicative past
- bidonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bidonner?
- /bi.dɔ.ne/
- \bi.dɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bidonner in French?
bidonner appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).