engendrer
French, verb/ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁe/
engendrer is spelled E-N-G-E-N-D-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Engendrer is a French verb meaning “to generate, spawn, beget” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire son semblable par voie de génération, en parlant de l’homme et des animaux”.
What does engendrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to generate, spawn, beget
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire son semblable par voie de génération, en parlant de l’homme et des animaux. 2. Reproduire sa propre divinité dans une autre personne trine et consubstantielle. 3. Produire ; faire naître. 4. Décrire ou produire une figure géométrique par son mouvement.
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 engendrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- engendrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- engendré participle past
- engendre first-person indicative present
- engendres indicative present second-person
- engendrons first-person indicative plural
- engendrez indicative plural present
- engendrent indicative plural present
- engendrais first-person imperfect indicative
- engendrait imperfect indicative singular
- engendrions first-person imperfect indicative
- engendriez imperfect indicative plural
- engendraient imperfect indicative plural
- engendrai first-person historic indicative
- engendras historic indicative past
- engendra historic indicative past
- engendrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce engendrer?
- /ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁe/
- \ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃.dʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to engendrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is engendrer in French?
engendrer appears 3.2 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).