débourser
French, verb/de.buʁ.se/
débourser is spelled D-É-B-O-U-R-S-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 22,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Débourser is a French verb meaning “to pay out; disburse, shell out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tirer de l’argent de sa bourse, de sa caisse, pour faire un paiement”.
What does débourser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pay out; disburse, shell out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tirer de l’argent de sa bourse, de sa caisse, pour faire un paiement.
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 débourser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déboursant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déboursé participle past
- débourse first-person indicative present
- débourses indicative present second-person
- déboursons first-person indicative plural
- déboursez indicative plural present
- déboursent indicative plural present
- déboursais first-person imperfect indicative
- déboursait imperfect indicative singular
- déboursions first-person imperfect indicative
- déboursiez imperfect indicative plural
- déboursaient imperfect indicative plural
- déboursai first-person historic indicative
- déboursas historic indicative past
- déboursa historic indicative past
- déboursâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce débourser?
- /de.buʁ.se/
- \de.buʁ.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 débourser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is débourser in French?
débourser appears 1.7 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).