émarger
French, verb/e.maʁ.ʒe/
émarger is spelled É-M-A-R-G-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émarger is a French verb meaning “to initial (a document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écrire, signer en marge d’un compte, d’un inventaire, d’un état, etc”.
What does émarger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to initial (a document)
- 2
to sign, sign in
- 3
to annotate, make marginal notes in
- 4
to draw one's salary
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Écrire, signer en marge d’un compte, d’un inventaire, d’un état, etc. 2. Toucher les appointements affectés à un emploi ou à une fonction. 3. Couper, diminuer la marge.
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 émarger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émargeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émargé participle past
- émarge first-person indicative present
- émarges indicative present second-person
- émargeons first-person indicative plural
- émargez indicative plural present
- émargent indicative plural present
- émargeais first-person imperfect indicative
- émargeait imperfect indicative singular
- émargions first-person imperfect indicative
- émargiez imperfect indicative plural
- émargeaient imperfect indicative plural
- émargeai first-person historic indicative
- émargeas historic indicative past
- émargea historic indicative past
- émargeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émarger?
- /e.maʁ.ʒe/
- \e.maʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is émarger in French?
émarger appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).