confirmer
French, verb/kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/
confirmer is spelled C-O-N-F-I-R-M-E-R (9 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,136th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Confirmer is a French verb meaning “to confirm (a fact etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire persister quelqu’un dans une opinion, dans une résolution, l’affermir dans cette opinion, dans cette…”.
What does confirmer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to confirm (a fact etc.)
- 2
to uphold (a decision)
- 3
to be confirmed, be corroborated
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire persister quelqu’un dans une opinion, dans une résolution, l’affermir dans cette opinion, dans cette résolution. 2. Rendre plus ferme, plus stable. 3. Sanctionner, ratifier. 4. Prouver plus fortement quelque chose, l’appuyer de quelque preuve décisive.
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 confirmer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- confirmant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- confirmé participle past
- confirme first-person indicative present
- confirmes indicative present second-person
- confirmons first-person indicative plural
- confirmez indicative plural present
- confirment indicative plural present
- confirmais first-person imperfect indicative
- confirmait imperfect indicative singular
- confirmions first-person imperfect indicative
- confirmiez imperfect indicative plural
- confirmaient imperfect indicative plural
- confirmai first-person historic indicative
- confirmas historic indicative past
- confirma historic indicative past
- confirmâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce confirmer?
- /kɔ̃.fiʁ.me/
- \kɔ̃.fiʁ.me\
- [kɔ̃.fiʁ.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 confirmer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is confirmer in French?
confirmer appears 18 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).