consterner
French, verb/kɔ̃s.tɛʁ.ne/
consterner is spelled C-O-N-S-T-E-R-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 68 million words in written French, the 258,710th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Consterner is a French verb meaning “to alarm, to dismay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper de consternation”.
What does consterner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to alarm, to dismay
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper de consternation.
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 consterner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- consternant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- consterné participle past
- consterne first-person indicative present
- consternes indicative present second-person
- consternons first-person indicative plural
- consternez indicative plural present
- consternent indicative plural present
- consternais first-person imperfect indicative
- consternait imperfect indicative singular
- consternions first-person imperfect indicative
- consterniez imperfect indicative plural
- consternaient imperfect indicative plural
- consternai first-person historic indicative
- consternas historic indicative past
- consterna historic indicative past
- consternâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce consterner?
- /kɔ̃s.tɛʁ.ne/
- \kɔ̃s.tɛʁ.ne\
- [kɔ̃s.tɛʁ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is consterner in French?
consterner 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).