contenter
French, verb/kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te/
contenter is spelled C-O-N-T-E-N-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contenter is a French verb meaning “to content, to satisfy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il souhaite avoir”.
What does contenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to content, to satisfy
- 2
to content oneself, to be content
Je me contente de très peu d'argent.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il souhaite avoir. 2. Rendre quelqu’un content en lui procurant ce qu’il attend de nous. 3. Apaiser quelqu’un en lui donnant, en lui accordant quelque chose. 4. Satisfaire, en parlant des sens et des passions.
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 contenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- contentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- contenté participle past
- contente first-person indicative present
- contentes indicative present second-person
- contentons first-person indicative plural
- contentez indicative plural present
- contentent indicative plural present
- contentais first-person imperfect indicative
- contentait imperfect indicative singular
- contentions first-person imperfect indicative
- contentiez imperfect indicative plural
- contentaient imperfect indicative plural
- contentai first-person historic indicative
- contentas historic indicative past
- contenta historic indicative past
- contentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contenter?
- /kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te/
- \kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te\
- [kɔ̃.tɑ̃.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is contenter in French?
contenter appears 10 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).