déterminer
French, verb/de.tɛʁ.mi.ne/
déterminer is spelled D-É-T-E-R-M-I-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written French, the 2,670th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déterminer is a French verb meaning “to determine, establish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fixer les limites de ; délimiter précisément”.
What does déterminer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to determine, establish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fixer les limites de ; délimiter précisément. 2. Obtenir la connaissance (d'une information), trouver la valeur (d'une donnée), par la recherche, la réflexion, le calcul. 3. Définir ou spécifier. 4. Préciser ou restreindre le sens d’un mot, d’une expression, d’une phrase.
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 déterminer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déterminant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- déterminé participle past
- détermine first-person indicative present
- détermines indicative present second-person
- déterminons first-person indicative plural
- déterminez indicative plural present
- déterminent indicative plural present
- déterminais first-person imperfect indicative
- déterminait imperfect indicative singular
- déterminions first-person imperfect indicative
- déterminiez imperfect indicative plural
- déterminaient imperfect indicative plural
- déterminai first-person historic indicative
- déterminas historic indicative past
- détermina historic indicative past
- déterminâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déterminer?
- /de.tɛʁ.mi.ne/
- \de.tɛʁ.mi.ne\
- [de.tɛʁ.mi.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 déterminer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déterminer in French?
déterminer appears 30 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).