enfermer
French, verb/ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/
enfermer is spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears 6.2 times per million words in written French, the 9,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Enfermer is a French verb meaning “to lock up, lock in, lock away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose dans un lieu fermé de tous côtés”.
What does enfermer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lock up, lock in, lock away
- 2
to imprison, entrap
- 3
to enclose, contain
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre quelqu’un ou quelque chose dans un lieu fermé de tous côtés. 2. Mettre quelqu’un dans un asile psychiatrique, dans une prison, dans un couvent, etc. 3. Serrer, mettre une chose dans un lieu, dans un meuble, que l’on ferme, pour la mieux conserver, pour la soustraire aux regards, pour la garder plus sûrement. 4. Environner de toutes parts.
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 enfermer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- enfermant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- enfermé participle past
- enferme first-person indicative present
- enfermes indicative present second-person
- enfermons first-person indicative plural
- enfermez indicative plural present
- enferment indicative plural present
- enfermais first-person imperfect indicative
- enfermait imperfect indicative singular
- enfermions first-person imperfect indicative
- enfermiez imperfect indicative plural
- enfermaient imperfect indicative plural
- enfermai first-person historic indicative
- enfermas historic indicative past
- enferma historic indicative past
- enfermâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce enfermer?
- /ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me/
- \ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me\
- [ɑ̃.fɛʁ.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is enfermer in French?
enfermer appears 6.2 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).