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démissionner

French, verb/de.mi.sjɔ.ne/

démissionner is spelled D-É-M-I-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-R (12 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written French, the 9,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démissionner is a French verb meaning “to resign” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner sa démission”.

What does démissionner mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to resign

  2. 2

    to dismiss, make resign

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Donner sa démission. 2. Faire démissionner, démettre.

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 démissionner

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • démissionnant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • démissionné participle past
  • démissionne first-person indicative present
  • démissionnes indicative present second-person
  • démissionnons first-person indicative plural
  • démissionnez indicative plural present
  • démissionnent indicative plural present
  • démissionnais first-person imperfect indicative
  • démissionnait imperfect indicative singular
  • démissionnions first-person imperfect indicative
  • démissionniez imperfect indicative plural
  • démissionnaient imperfect indicative plural
  • démissionnai first-person historic indicative
  • démissionnas historic indicative past
  • démissionna historic indicative past
  • démissionnâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce démissionner?

  • /de.mi.sjɔ.ne/
  • \de.mi.sjɔ.ne\
  • [de.mi.sjɔ.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 démissionner

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is démissionner in French?

démissionner appears 6.6 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).

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