déverbal
French, noun/de.vɛʁ.bal/
déverbal is spelled D-É-V-E-R-B-A-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Déverbal is a French masculine noun meaning “deverbal (noun derived from and describing the action of a given verb)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substantif dérivé d’un verbe”.
What does déverbal mean in English?
adjective
- 1
deverbal (which derives from a verb)
- 2
deverbal (derived from a verb)
noun
- 1
masculinedeverbal (noun derived from and describing the action of a given verb)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui déverbalise.
noun: 1. Substantif dérivé d’un verbe. 2. Substantif obtenu en retirant la désinence verbale d’un verbe à l’infinitif et qui exprime l’action.
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 déverbal
- déverbale feminine
- déverbaux masculine plural
- déverbales feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce déverbal?
- /de.vɛʁ.bal/
- \de.vɛʁ.bal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to déverbal
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is déverbal in French?
déverbal appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).