braconner
French, verb/bʁa.kɔ.ne/
braconner is a French verb meaning “to poach (hunt clandestinely)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chasser furtivement et sans permission sur les terres d’autrui pour faire son profit du gibier”.
What does braconner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to poach (hunt clandestinely)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chasser furtivement et sans permission sur les terres d’autrui pour faire son profit du gibier.
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 braconner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- braconnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- braconné participle past
- braconne first-person indicative present
- braconnes indicative present second-person
- braconnons first-person indicative plural
- braconnez indicative plural present
- braconnent indicative plural present
- braconnais first-person imperfect indicative
- braconnait imperfect indicative singular
- braconnions first-person imperfect indicative
- braconniez imperfect indicative plural
- braconnaient imperfect indicative plural
- braconnai first-person historic indicative
- braconnas historic indicative past
- braconna historic indicative past
- braconnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce braconner?
- /bʁa.kɔ.ne/
- \bʁa.kɔ.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 braconner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is braconner in French?
braconner appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).