désapprouver
French, verb/de.za.pʁu.ve/
désapprouver is spelled D-É-S-A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-R (12 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 67,389th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désapprouver is a French verb meaning “to disapprove of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Trouver mauvais ce qu’on entend dire, ce qu’on voit faire”.
What does désapprouver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disapprove of
Ils désapprouvent ce que vous dites, ce que vous faites, ce que vous êtes.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trouver mauvais ce qu’on entend dire, ce qu’on voit faire. 2. Exprimer un désaccord, ne pas être d'accord.
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 désapprouver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désapprouvant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désapprouvé participle past
- désapprouve first-person indicative present
- désapprouves indicative present second-person
- désapprouvons first-person indicative plural
- désapprouvez indicative plural present
- désapprouvent indicative plural present
- désapprouvais first-person imperfect indicative
- désapprouvait imperfect indicative singular
- désapprouvions first-person imperfect indicative
- désapprouviez imperfect indicative plural
- désapprouvaient imperfect indicative plural
- désapprouvai first-person historic indicative
- désapprouvas historic indicative past
- désapprouva historic indicative past
- désapprouvâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désapprouver?
- /de.za.pʁu.ve/
- \de.za.pʁu.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to désapprouver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is désapprouver in French?
désapprouver appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).