bombarder
French, verb/bɔ̃.baʁ.de/
bombarder is spelled B-O-M-B-A-R-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bombarder is a French verb meaning “to shell, blitz” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attaquer une ville, une place, une position militaire avec de l’artillerie terrestre, maritime ou, larguer…”.
What does bombarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shell, blitz
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Attaquer une ville, une place, une position militaire avec de l’artillerie terrestre, maritime ou, larguer des bombes avec un aéronef. 2. Harceler ; presser de manière continue et répétitive. 3. Lancer, placer quelque chose ou quelqu'un à un endroit déterminé. 4. Placer, sans justification ni concertation, quelqu’un à une place, à un poste.
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 bombarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bombardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bombardé participle past
- bombarde first-person indicative present
- bombardes indicative present second-person
- bombardons first-person indicative plural
- bombardez indicative plural present
- bombardent indicative plural present
- bombardais first-person imperfect indicative
- bombardait imperfect indicative singular
- bombardions first-person imperfect indicative
- bombardiez imperfect indicative plural
- bombardaient imperfect indicative plural
- bombardai first-person historic indicative
- bombardas historic indicative past
- bombarda historic indicative past
- bombardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bombarder?
- /bɔ̃.baʁ.de/
- \bɔ̃.baʁ.de\
- [bɔ̃.baʁ.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bombarder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bombarder in French?
bombarder appears 1.9 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).