damer
French, verb/da.me/
damer is spelled D-A-M-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Damer is a French verb meaning “to queen (transform a pawn into a queen, by advancing it to the opponent's side of the board)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pilonner le sol avec une dame, afin de le compacter”.
What does damer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to queen (transform a pawn into a queen, by advancing it to the opponent's side of the board)
- 2
to crown, to king
verb
- 1
to pat down, to pat, pack down
- 2
to groom (snow)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pilonner le sol avec une dame, afin de le compacter. 2. Compacter et lisser la neige à l’aide d’une dameuse. 3. Fouler la charge d’un mortier. 4. Atteindre, avec un de ses pions, la dernière rangée des cases opposées aux siennes, et ainsi le promouvoir (aux échecs, le plus souvent pour en faire une dame, mais pas forcément).
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 damer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- damant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- damé participle past
- dame first-person indicative present
- dames indicative present second-person
- damons first-person indicative plural
- damez indicative plural present
- dament indicative plural present
- damais first-person imperfect indicative
- damait imperfect indicative singular
- damions first-person imperfect indicative
- damiez imperfect indicative plural
- damaient imperfect indicative plural
- damai first-person historic indicative
- damas historic indicative past
- dama historic indicative past
- damâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce damer?
- /da.me/
- \da.me\
- [nouchi]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to damer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is damer in French?
damer appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).