darder
French, verb/daʁ.de/
darder is a French verb meaning “to shoot (an arrow, look etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lancer une arme, ou un dard”.
What does darder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to shoot (an arrow, look etc.)
- 2
to point (up or out)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lancer une arme, ou un dard. 2. Se dit des rais, rayons et des flammes lancés comme des dards, en parlant du soleil. 3. Lancer. 4. Attaquer en lançant une arme figurative.
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 darder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dardé participle past
- darde first-person indicative present
- dardes indicative present second-person
- dardons first-person indicative plural
- dardez indicative plural present
- dardent indicative plural present
- dardais first-person imperfect indicative
- dardait imperfect indicative singular
- dardions first-person imperfect indicative
- dardiez imperfect indicative plural
- dardaient imperfect indicative plural
- dardai first-person historic indicative
- dardas historic indicative past
- darda historic indicative past
- dardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce darder?
- /daʁ.de/
- \daʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is darder in French?
darder appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).