désennuyer
French, verb/de.zɑ̃.nɥi.je/
désennuyer is spelled D-É-S-E-N-N-U-Y-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désennuyer is a French verb meaning “to relieve boredom (from)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soustraire, échapper à l’ennui”.
What does désennuyer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to relieve boredom (from)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Soustraire, échapper à l’ennui.
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 désennuyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désennuyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désennuyé participle past
- désennuie first-person indicative present
- désennuies indicative present second-person
- désennuyons first-person indicative plural
- désennuyez indicative plural present
- désennuient indicative plural present
- désennuyais first-person imperfect indicative
- désennuyait imperfect indicative singular
- désennuyions first-person imperfect indicative
- désennuyiez imperfect indicative plural
- désennuyaient imperfect indicative plural
- désennuyai first-person historic indicative
- désennuyas historic indicative past
- désennuya historic indicative past
- désennuyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désennuyer?
- /de.zɑ̃.nɥi.je/
- \de.zɑ̃.nɥi.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is désennuyer in French?
désennuyer appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).