déboutonner
French, verb/de.bu.tɔ.ne/
déboutonner is spelled D-É-B-O-U-T-O-N-N-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déboutonner is a French verb meaning “to unbutton” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ouvrir, dégager en faisant sortir les boutons de la boutonnière”.
What does déboutonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unbutton
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ouvrir, dégager en faisant sortir les boutons de la boutonnière. 2. Ôter le bouton du col de la chemise pour mieux respirer. 3. Ôter le bouton d'un fleuret. 4. Parler librement, dire tout ce qu’on pense.
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 déboutonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déboutonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déboutonné participle past
- déboutonne first-person indicative present
- déboutonnes indicative present second-person
- déboutonnons first-person indicative plural
- déboutonnez indicative plural present
- déboutonnent indicative plural present
- déboutonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- déboutonnait imperfect indicative singular
- déboutonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- déboutonniez imperfect indicative plural
- déboutonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- déboutonnai first-person historic indicative
- déboutonnas historic indicative past
- déboutonna historic indicative past
- déboutonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déboutonner?
- /de.bu.tɔ.ne/
- \de.bu.tɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déboutonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déboutonner in French?
déboutonner appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).