émincer
French, verb/e.mɛ̃.se/
émincer is spelled É-M-I-N-C-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written French, the 115,758th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émincer is a French verb meaning “to cut (meat etc) into thin slices” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper de la viande ou des légumes en tranches très minces”.
What does émincer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut (meat etc) into thin slices
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couper de la viande ou des légumes en tranches très minces. 2. Rendre quelque chose moins épais.
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 émincer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- éminçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- émincé participle past
- émince first-person indicative present
- éminces indicative present second-person
- éminçons first-person indicative plural
- émincez indicative plural present
- émincent indicative plural present
- éminçais first-person imperfect indicative
- éminçait imperfect indicative singular
- émincions first-person imperfect indicative
- éminciez imperfect indicative plural
- éminçaient imperfect indicative plural
- éminçai first-person historic indicative
- éminças historic indicative past
- éminça historic indicative past
- éminçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce émincer?
- /e.mɛ̃.se/
- \e.mɛ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to émincer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émincer in French?
émincer appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).