boulonner
French, verb/bu.lɔ.ne/
boulonner is spelled B-O-U-L-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boulonner is a French verb meaning “to bolt (on)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fixer avec un ou des boulons”.
What does boulonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bolt (on)
- 2
to work hard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer avec un ou des boulons. 2. Travailler, aller au boulot.
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 boulonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- boulonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- boulonné participle past
- boulonne first-person indicative present
- boulonnes indicative present second-person
- boulonnons first-person indicative plural
- boulonnez indicative plural present
- boulonnent indicative plural present
- boulonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- boulonnait imperfect indicative singular
- boulonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- boulonniez imperfect indicative plural
- boulonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- boulonnai first-person historic indicative
- boulonnas historic indicative past
- boulonna historic indicative past
- boulonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boulonner?
- /bu.lɔ.ne/
- \bu.lɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to boulonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boulonner in French?
boulonner appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).