énerver
French, verb/e.nɛʁ.ve/
énerver is spelled É-N-E-R-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written French, the 10,464th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Énerver is a French verb meaning “to vex, to get on one's nerves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agacer en produisant une irritation nerveuse”.
What does énerver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vex, to get on one's nerves
- 2
to unnerve, to make nervous
- 3
Quebecto be excited
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agacer en produisant une irritation nerveuse. 2. Affaiblir en endommageant le système nerveux. 3. Amollir, efféminer. 4. Défaire de son élasticité une chose.
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 énerver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- énervant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- énervé participle past
- énerve first-person indicative present
- énerves indicative present second-person
- énervons first-person indicative plural
- énervez indicative plural present
- énervent indicative plural present
- énervais first-person imperfect indicative
- énervait imperfect indicative singular
- énervions first-person imperfect indicative
- énerviez imperfect indicative plural
- énervaient imperfect indicative plural
- énervai first-person historic indicative
- énervas historic indicative past
- énerva historic indicative past
- énervâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce énerver?
- /e.nɛʁ.ve/
- \e.nɛʁ.ve\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to énerver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is énerver in French?
énerver appears 5.5 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).