démarrer
French, verb/de.ma.ʁe/
démarrer is spelled D-É-M-A-R-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démarrer is a French verb meaning “to start, to get started, to start up (especially a vehicle)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quitter le port en parlant d’un bâtiment”.
What does démarrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to start, to get started, to start up (especially a vehicle)
Démarre la voiture !
- 2
to start up, to turn on (a computer)
Démarrez l'ordinateur.
- 3
to start, to get started, to start up
La voiture démarre.
- 4
to drive off, to pull away
- 5
to start up, to turn on, to begin to operate
- 6
to untie
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Quitter le port en parlant d’un bâtiment. 2. Se mettre en marche ou en mouvement, surtout en parlant d’un véhicule. 3. Quitter une place, en parlant de personnes. On l’emploie surtout avec la négation.
verb: 1. Détacher ce qui est amarré. 2. Mettre en marche ou en mouvement, surtout en parlant d’un véhicule. 3. Mettre en marche ; commencer. 4. Charger un programme, commencer l’exécution d’un logiciel ou la mise en route d’un appareil.
verb: 1. Rompre ses amarres par accident.
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 démarrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démarrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démarré participle past
- démarre first-person indicative present
- démarres indicative present second-person
- démarrons first-person indicative plural
- démarrez indicative plural present
- démarrent indicative plural present
- démarrais first-person imperfect indicative
- démarrait imperfect indicative singular
- démarrions first-person imperfect indicative
- démarriez imperfect indicative plural
- démarraient imperfect indicative plural
- démarrai first-person historic indicative
- démarras historic indicative past
- démarra historic indicative past
- démarrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démarrer?
- /de.ma.ʁe/
- \de.ma.ʁe\
- [de.ma.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démarrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démarrer in French?
démarrer appears 7.9 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).