éborgner
French, verb/e.bɔʁ.ɲe/
éborgner is spelled É-B-O-R-G-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éborgner is a French verb meaning “to cause to lose an eye, take someone's eye out, have someone's eye out, gouge out an eye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre borgne”.
What does éborgner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cause to lose an eye, take someone's eye out, have someone's eye out, gouge out an eye
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre borgne. 2. Donner l'impression de perdre une partie de son visage. 3. Débarrasser un arbre de ses yeux, de ses bourgeons inutiles. 4. Élever devant une maison une autre construction qui lui enlève le jour, la vue.
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 éborgner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éborgnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- éborgné participle past
- éborgne first-person indicative present
- éborgnes indicative present second-person
- éborgnons first-person indicative plural
- éborgnez indicative plural present
- éborgnent indicative plural present
- éborgnais first-person imperfect indicative
- éborgnait imperfect indicative singular
- éborgnions first-person imperfect indicative
- éborgniez imperfect indicative plural
- éborgnaient imperfect indicative plural
- éborgnai first-person historic indicative
- éborgnas historic indicative past
- éborgna historic indicative past
- éborgnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éborgner?
- /e.bɔʁ.ɲe/
- \e.bɔʁ.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éborgner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éborgner in French?
éborgner appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).