déminer
French, verb/de.mi.ne/
déminer is spelled D-É-M-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déminer is a French verb meaning “to demine, to remove mines from” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Débarrasser un lieu des mines qui y sont posées ou cachées”.
What does déminer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to demine, to remove mines from
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Débarrasser un lieu des mines qui y sont posées ou cachées. 2. Éviter les écueils, les problèmes par la discussion, la préparation. Résoudre les points de contention avant une rencontre.
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 déminer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déminant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déminé participle past
- démine first-person indicative present
- démines indicative present second-person
- déminons first-person indicative plural
- déminez indicative plural present
- déminent indicative plural present
- déminais first-person imperfect indicative
- déminait imperfect indicative singular
- déminions first-person imperfect indicative
- déminiez imperfect indicative plural
- déminaient imperfect indicative plural
- déminai first-person historic indicative
- déminas historic indicative past
- démina historic indicative past
- déminâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déminer?
- /de.mi.ne/
- \de.mi.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déminer in French?
déminer 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).