démonter
French, verb/de.mɔ̃.te/
démonter is spelled D-É-M-O-N-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.9 times per million words in written French, the 13,339th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Démonter is a French verb meaning “to dismantle, to take down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arrêter le mouvement d’un mécanisme, qui a ensuite besoin d’être remonté”.
What does démonter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dismantle, to take down
- 2
to remove, to take off
- 3
to disconcert
- 4
informalto run rings around, to chew up, to take apart, to tear apart (a rival team)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arrêter le mouvement d’un mécanisme, qui a ensuite besoin d’être remonté. 2. Perdre le contrôle. 3. Défaire pièce par pièce ce qui formait un tout. 4. Détraquer, mettre hors d’usage.
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 démonter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- démontant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démonté participle past
- démonte first-person indicative present
- démontes indicative present second-person
- démontons first-person indicative plural
- démontez indicative plural present
- démontent indicative plural present
- démontais first-person imperfect indicative
- démontait imperfect indicative singular
- démontions first-person imperfect indicative
- démontiez imperfect indicative plural
- démontaient imperfect indicative plural
- démontai first-person historic indicative
- démontas historic indicative past
- démonta historic indicative past
- démontâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démonter?
- /de.mɔ̃.te/
- \de.mɔ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démonter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démonter in French?
démonter appears 3.9 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).