borner
French, verb/bɔʁ.ne/
borner is spelled B-O-R-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Borner is a French verb meaning “to limit, confine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Limiter par une ou plusieurs bornes”.
What does borner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to limit, confine
- 2
to confine oneself (à faire to doing something)
- 3
to content oneself
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Limiter par une ou plusieurs bornes. 2. Limiter, resserrer, renfermer dans une certaine étendue, dans un certain espace. 3. Se dit, dans le même sens, en parlant des personnes, par rapport à leurs propriétés, à leurs domaines. 4. Modérer, restreindre.
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 borner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bornant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- borné participle past
- borne first-person indicative present
- bornes indicative present second-person
- bornons first-person indicative plural
- bornez indicative plural present
- bornent indicative plural present
- bornais first-person imperfect indicative
- bornait imperfect indicative singular
- bornions first-person imperfect indicative
- borniez imperfect indicative plural
- bornaient imperfect indicative plural
- bornai first-person historic indicative
- bornas historic indicative past
- borna historic indicative past
- bornâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce borner?
- /bɔʁ.ne/
- \bɔʁ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is borner in French?
borner appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).