cauchemarder
French, verb/kɔʃ.maʁ.de/
cauchemarder is spelled C-A-U-C-H-E-M-A-R-D-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cauchemarder is a French verb meaning “to have a nightmare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un cauchemar”.
What does cauchemarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to have a nightmare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un cauchemar.
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 cauchemarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cauchemardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cauchemardé participle past
- cauchemarde first-person indicative present
- cauchemardes indicative present second-person
- cauchemardons first-person indicative plural
- cauchemardez indicative plural present
- cauchemardent indicative plural present
- cauchemardais first-person imperfect indicative
- cauchemardait imperfect indicative singular
- cauchemardions first-person imperfect indicative
- cauchemardiez imperfect indicative plural
- cauchemardaient imperfect indicative plural
- cauchemardai first-person historic indicative
- cauchemardas historic indicative past
- cauchemarda historic indicative past
- cauchemardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cauchemarder?
- /kɔʃ.maʁ.de/
- /koʃ.maʁ.de/
- \koʃ.maʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cauchemarder in French?
cauchemarder appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).