emporter
French, verb/ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/
emporter is spelled E-M-P-O-R-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,331st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Emporter is a French verb meaning “to take” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Porter hors d’un lieu”.
What does emporter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to take
- 2
to win
- 3
to take away, to blow away, to carry away
Le vent emporte les fleurs.
- 4
to take away
des plats à emporter
- 5
to get angry; to lose one's temper; to flare up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Porter hors d’un lieu. 2. Entraîner, arracher, enlever ou emmener avec effort, avec rapidité ou avec violence. 3. Causer la mort rapidement, en parlant d’une maladie. 4. Détruire ; faire disparaître.
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 emporter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- emportant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- emporté participle past
- emporte first-person indicative present
- emportes indicative present second-person
- emportons first-person indicative plural
- emportez indicative plural present
- emportent indicative plural present
- emportais first-person imperfect indicative
- emportait imperfect indicative singular
- emportions first-person imperfect indicative
- emportiez imperfect indicative plural
- emportaient imperfect indicative plural
- emportai first-person historic indicative
- emportas historic indicative past
- emporta historic indicative past
- emportâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce emporter?
- /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/
- \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\
- [ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to emporter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is emporter in French?
emporter appears 13 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).