émigrer
French, verb/e.mi.ɡʁe/
émigrer is spelled É-M-I-G-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 27,734th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émigrer is a French verb meaning “to emigrate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre”.
What does émigrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emigrate
- 2
to migrate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Quitter son pays pour aller s’établir dans un autre. 2. Quitter la France durant la Convention, en parlant des aristocrates et de leurs affidés. 3. Quitter périodiquement une région pour séjourner dans une autre. 4. Migrer d'un lieu à un autre.
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 émigrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- émigrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émigré participle past
- émigre first-person indicative present
- émigres indicative present second-person
- émigrons first-person indicative plural
- émigrez indicative plural present
- émigrent indicative plural present
- émigrais first-person imperfect indicative
- émigrait imperfect indicative singular
- émigrions first-person imperfect indicative
- émigriez imperfect indicative plural
- émigraient imperfect indicative plural
- émigrai first-person historic indicative
- émigras historic indicative past
- émigra historic indicative past
- émigrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émigrer?
- /e.mi.ɡʁe/
- \e.mi.ɡʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émigrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émigrer in French?
émigrer appears 1.2 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).