caver
French, verb/ka.ve/
caver is spelled C-A-V-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Caver is a French verb meaning “to dig; to mine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Creuser, miner. (sur le massif Alpin on dit chaver ou tchaver)”.
What does caver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig; to mine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Creuser, miner. (sur le massif Alpin on dit chaver ou tchaver) 2. Chercher des truffes. 3. Faire mise d’une certaine quantité d’argent au jeu de brelan, de bouillotte, etc. 4. Ellipse de caver le corps : retirer le corps, en portant une botte et en avançant la tête.
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 caver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cavant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cavé participle past
- cave first-person indicative present
- caves indicative present second-person
- cavons first-person indicative plural
- cavez indicative plural present
- cavent indicative plural present
- cavais first-person imperfect indicative
- cavait imperfect indicative singular
- cavions first-person imperfect indicative
- caviez imperfect indicative plural
- cavaient imperfect indicative plural
- cavai first-person historic indicative
- cavas historic indicative past
- cava historic indicative past
- cavâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce caver?
- /ka.ve/
- \ka.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is caver in French?
caver appears about once in every 68 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).