danser
French, verb/dɑ̃.se/
danser is spelled D-A-N-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Danser is a French verb meaning “to dance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exécuter une danse”.
What does danser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dance
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exécuter une danse. 2. Se mouvoir d’une façon qui évoque les mouvements d’une danse. 3. Exécuter en dansant les pas propres à tel ou tel genre de danse. 4. Être dansé.
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 danser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dansant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dansé participle past
- danse first-person indicative present
- dɑ̃s first-person indicative present
- danses indicative present second-person
- dansons first-person indicative plural
- dansez indicative plural present
- dansent indicative plural present
- dansais first-person imperfect indicative
- dansait imperfect indicative singular
- dansions first-person imperfect indicative
- dansiez imperfect indicative plural
- dansaient imperfect indicative plural
- dansai first-person historic indicative
- dansas historic indicative past
- dansa historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce danser?
- /dɑ̃.se/
- \dɑ̃.se\
- [dɑ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to danser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is danser in French?
danser appears 17 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).