buer
French, verb/bɥe/
buer is spelled B-U-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written French, the 234,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buer is a French verb meaning “to wash (clothing); to do the laundry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire la lessive, lessiver, laver”.
What does buer mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto wash (clothing); to do the laundry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire la lessive, lessiver, laver.
verb: 1. (En parlant du pain) Dégager de la buée, de la vapeur.
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 buer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- buant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bué participle past
- bue first-person indicative present
- bues indicative present second-person
- buons first-person indicative plural
- buez indicative plural present
- buent indicative plural present
- buais first-person imperfect indicative
- buait imperfect indicative singular
- buions first-person imperfect indicative
- buiez imperfect indicative plural
- buaient imperfect indicative plural
- buai first-person historic indicative
- buas historic indicative past
- bua historic indicative past
- buâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buer?
- /bɥe/
- \bɥe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buer in French?
buer appears about once in every 55 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).