déprimer
French, verb/de.pʁi.me/
déprimer is spelled D-É-P-R-I-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 29,273rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déprimer is a French verb meaning “to depress, to deject” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enfoncer, affaisser”.
What does déprimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to depress, to deject
- 2
to be depressed, to be dejected
Je déprime.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enfoncer, affaisser. 2. Accabler, abattre, décourager. 3. En parlant d’une personne, ou de personnes, en réputer de moindre valeur les prétentions, l’influence, le crédit, l’importance.
verb: 1. Être accablé, abattu, découragé. 2. Faire une dépression.
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 déprimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déprimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déprimé participle past
- déprime first-person indicative present
- déprimes indicative present second-person
- déprimons first-person indicative plural
- déprimez indicative plural present
- dépriment indicative plural present
- déprimais first-person imperfect indicative
- déprimait imperfect indicative singular
- déprimions first-person imperfect indicative
- déprimiez imperfect indicative plural
- déprimaient imperfect indicative plural
- déprimai first-person historic indicative
- déprimas historic indicative past
- déprima historic indicative past
- déprimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déprimer?
- /de.pʁi.me/
- \de.pʁi.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is déprimer in French?
déprimer appears 1.1 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).