dévaler
French, verb/de.va.le/
dévaler is spelled D-É-V-A-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 61,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévaler is a French verb meaning “to go down, descend” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller vers le bas”.
What does dévaler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go down, descend
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller vers le bas. 2. Descendre très rapidement. 3. Aller très rapidement. 4. Être en pente, être raide, s’abaisser.
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 dévaler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévalant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévalé participle past
- dévale first-person indicative present
- dévales indicative present second-person
- dévalons first-person indicative plural
- dévalez indicative plural present
- dévalent indicative plural present
- dévalais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévalait imperfect indicative singular
- dévalions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévaliez imperfect indicative plural
- dévalaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévalai first-person historic indicative
- dévalas historic indicative past
- dévala historic indicative past
- dévalâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévaler?
- /de.va.le/
- \de.va.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dévaler in French?
dévaler appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).