engage
French, verb
engage is spelled E-N-G-A-G-E (6 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written French, the 2,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Engage is a French verb meaning “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, engagé is a different word: “past participle of engager”.
What does engage mean in English?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of engager
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est mis en gage. 2. Obligé, qui s’est engagé. 3. Qui s’est engagé pour une cause. 4. Indisponible, qui s’est engagé par ailleurs.
noun: 1. Personne qui s’est engagée, en particulier en tant que militaire. 2. Serviteur, servante. 3. Personne recrutée dans le cadre des pratiques de l’engagisme.
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 engage
- engagée feminine
- engagés masculine plural
- engagées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to engage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is engage in French?
engage appears 26 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).