émerger
French, verb/e.mɛʁ.ʒe/
émerger is spelled É-M-E-R-G-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émerger is a French verb meaning “to arrive at the top; to move upwards” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer d’un milieu inférieur à un milieu supérieur”.
What does émerger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to arrive at the top; to move upwards
- 2
emerge (to come into view)
- 3
colloquialto wake up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer d’un milieu inférieur à un milieu supérieur. 2. Sortir de l'eau. 3. Sortir de l'inconnu, du néant. 4. Sortir d’un milieu obscur pour entrer dans un milieu lumineux.
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 émerger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émergeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émergé participle past
- émerge first-person indicative present
- émerges indicative present second-person
- émergeons first-person indicative plural
- émergez indicative plural present
- émergent indicative plural present
- émergeais first-person imperfect indicative
- émergeait imperfect indicative singular
- émergions first-person imperfect indicative
- émergiez imperfect indicative plural
- émergeaient imperfect indicative plural
- émergeai first-person historic indicative
- émergeas historic indicative past
- émergea historic indicative past
- émergeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émerger?
- /e.mɛʁ.ʒe/
- \e.mɛʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émerger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émerger in French?
émerger appears 3.5 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).