concevoir
French, verb/kɔ̃.sə.vwaʁ/
concevoir is spelled C-O-N-C-E-V-O-I-R (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,288th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Concevoir is a French verb meaning “to conceive (an idea)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Créer ; inventer ; imaginer”.
What does concevoir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to conceive (an idea)
- 2
to conceive, to conceive of; to understand, to comprehend
- 3
datedto conceive (a baby)
- 4
to design
concevoir les plans d'un immeuble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Créer ; inventer ; imaginer. 2. Comprendre. 3. Procréer ; tomber enceinte.
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 concevoir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- concevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- conçu participle past
- conçois first-person indicative present
- conçoit indicative present singular
- concevons first-person indicative plural
- concevez indicative plural present
- conçoivent indicative plural present
- concevais first-person imperfect indicative
- concevait imperfect indicative singular
- concevions first-person imperfect indicative
- conceviez imperfect indicative plural
- concevaient imperfect indicative plural
- conçus first-person historic indicative
- conçut historic indicative past
- conçûmes first-person historic indicative
- conçûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce concevoir?
- /kɔ̃.sə.vwaʁ/
- \kɔ̃.sə.vwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to concevoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is concevoir in French?
concevoir appears 11 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).