calmer
French, verb/kal.me/
calmer is spelled C-A-L-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,658th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calmer is a French verb meaning “to calm, pacify, soothe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre calme (au sens physique ou au sens moral)”.
What does calmer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to calm, pacify, soothe
- 2
to calm down, abate, subside
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre calme (au sens physique ou au sens moral). 2. Devenir calme, se calmer. 3. Arrêter l’effervescence d’un métal en fusion en lui adjoignant notamment de l’aluminium, qui a pour effet de le désoxygéner.
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 calmer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- calmant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- calmé participle past
- calme first-person indicative present
- calmes indicative present second-person
- calmons first-person indicative plural
- calmez indicative plural present
- calment indicative plural present
- calmais first-person imperfect indicative
- calmait imperfect indicative singular
- calmions first-person imperfect indicative
- calmiez imperfect indicative plural
- calmaient imperfect indicative plural
- calmai first-person historic indicative
- calmas historic indicative past
- calma historic indicative past
- calmâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce calmer?
- /kal.me/
- \kal.me\
- [kal.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to calmer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calmer in French?
calmer appears 16 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).