donner
French, verb/dɔ.ne/
donner is spelled D-O-N-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears 257 times per million words in written French, the 327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Donner is a French verb meaning “to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un don ; transférer, sans rétribution, la propriété d’une chose que l’on possède ou dont on jouit, à…”.
What does donner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else
- 2
to donate
- 3
to come across
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un don ; transférer, sans rétribution, la propriété d’une chose que l’on possède ou dont on jouit, à une autre personne. 2. Offrir à des invités un dîner, une fête, un bal, etc. 3. Offrir ; présenter. 4. Livrer, mettre entre les mains, remettre, confier.
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 donner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- donnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- donné participle past
- donne first-person indicative present
- donnes indicative present second-person
- donnons first-person indicative plural
- donnez indicative plural present
- donnent indicative plural present
- donnais first-person imperfect indicative
- donnait imperfect indicative singular
- donnions first-person imperfect indicative
- donniez imperfect indicative plural
- donnaient imperfect indicative plural
- donnai first-person historic indicative
- donnas historic indicative past
- donna historic indicative past
- donnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce donner?
- /dɔ.ne/
- \dɔ.ne\
- [do.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 donner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is donner in French?
donner appears 257 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).