dégrafer
French, verb/de.ɡʁa.fe/
dégrafer is spelled D-É-G-R-A-F-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dégrafer is a French verb meaning “to unclasp, unfasten, unhook (a piece of clothing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détacher une chose de l’agrafe ou des agrafes qui la retenaient”.
What does dégrafer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unclasp, unfasten, unhook (a piece of clothing)
- 2
to unbutton oneself, take one's clothes off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détacher une chose de l’agrafe ou des agrafes qui la retenaient. 2. Le fait, pour un bâtiment, de quitter la zone où il était stationné.
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 dégrafer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dégrafant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dégrafé participle past
- dégrafe first-person indicative present
- dégrafes indicative present second-person
- dégrafons first-person indicative plural
- dégrafez indicative plural present
- dégrafent indicative plural present
- dégrafais first-person imperfect indicative
- dégrafait imperfect indicative singular
- dégrafions first-person imperfect indicative
- dégrafiez imperfect indicative plural
- dégrafaient imperfect indicative plural
- dégrafai first-person historic indicative
- dégrafas historic indicative past
- dégrafa historic indicative past
- dégrafâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dégrafer?
- /de.ɡʁa.fe/
- \de.ɡʁa.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dégrafer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dégrafer in French?
dégrafer appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).