douer
French, verb/dwe/
douer is spelled D-O-U-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 125,137th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Douer is a French verb meaning “to endow (someone) (de with)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner des qualités ou des avantages, des défauts ou des désagréments”.
What does douer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to endow (someone) (de with)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner des qualités ou des avantages, des défauts ou des désagréments. 2. Pourvoir de qualités, conférer des aptitudes.
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 douer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- douant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- doué participle past
- doue first-person indicative present
- doues indicative present second-person
- douons first-person indicative plural
- douez indicative plural present
- douent indicative plural present
- douais first-person imperfect indicative
- douait imperfect indicative singular
- douions first-person imperfect indicative
- douiez imperfect indicative plural
- douaient imperfect indicative plural
- douai first-person historic indicative
- douas historic indicative past
- doua historic indicative past
- douâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce douer?
- /dwe/
- /du.e/
- \dwe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is douer in French?
douer appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).