emmerder
French, verb/ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/
emmerder is spelled E-M-M-E-R-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.1 times per million words in written French, the 15,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emmerder is a French verb meaning “to bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of" someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Souiller d’excréments”.
What does emmerder mean in English?
verb
- 1
vulgarto bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of" someone
Il m'emmerde avec ses gamineries !
- 2
vulgarto bother with
avec/à, se casser le cul à
- 3
vulgarto be bored
Ah, ce qu'on s'emmerde ici !
- 4
vulgarused to tell someone to bug off
Je t'emmerde !
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Souiller d’excréments. 2. Manifester son mépris et parfois sa supériorité. 3. Ennuyer ; importuner. 4. S’ennuyer.
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 emmerder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- emmerdant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- emmerdé participle past
- emmerde first-person indicative present
- emmerdes indicative present second-person
- emmerdons first-person indicative plural
- emmerdez indicative plural present
- emmerdent indicative plural present
- emmerdais first-person imperfect indicative
- emmerdait imperfect indicative singular
- emmerdions first-person imperfect indicative
- emmerdiez imperfect indicative plural
- emmerdaient imperfect indicative plural
- emmerdai first-person historic indicative
- emmerdas historic indicative past
- emmerda historic indicative past
- emmerdâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emmerder?
- /ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de/
- \ɑ̃.mɛʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emmerder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emmerder in French?
emmerder appears 3.1 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).