brasser
French, verb/bʁa.se/
brasser is spelled B-R-A-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 31,386th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brasser is a French verb meaning “to brew (beer)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fabriquer de la bière en remuant le malt”.
What does brasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to brew (beer)
- 2
to intermingle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fabriquer de la bière en remuant le malt. 2. Faire fermenter des pommes pour fabriquer du cidre. 3. Tramer, fomenter, comploter. 4. Mouvoir, agiter en vue d’une opération.
verb: 1. Mouvoir les bras d’une vergue pour changer la direction de la voile qu’elle porte. 2. Nager la brasse.
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 brasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- brassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- brassé participle past
- brasse first-person indicative present
- brasses indicative present second-person
- brassons first-person indicative plural
- brassez indicative plural present
- brassent indicative plural present
- brassais first-person imperfect indicative
- brassait imperfect indicative singular
- brassions first-person imperfect indicative
- brassiez imperfect indicative plural
- brassaient imperfect indicative plural
- brassai first-person historic indicative
- brassas historic indicative past
- brassa historic indicative past
- brassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brasser?
- /bʁa.se/
- \bʁa.se\
- \bʁɑ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to brasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brasser in French?
brasser appears 1.0 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).