entonner
French, verb/ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/
entonner is spelled E-N-T-O-N-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,044th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Entonner is a French verb meaning “to intone; to chant; to vocalise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre un air sur le ton”.
What does entonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to intone; to chant; to vocalise
verb
- 1
to barrel (to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre un air sur le ton. 2. Chanter le commencement, les premières paroles d’une hymne, d’un psaume, d’une antienne, d’un air, etc. 3. Déclamer ou déclarer à la cantonade.
verb: 1. Verser un liquide dans un tonneau. 2. Verser un liquide dans la bouche de quelqu'un. 3. pronominal Pénétrer, s’engouffrer avec impétuosité.
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 entonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- entonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- entonné participle past
- entonne first-person indicative present
- entonnes indicative present second-person
- entonnons first-person indicative plural
- entonnez indicative plural present
- entonnent indicative plural present
- entonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- entonnait imperfect indicative singular
- entonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- entonniez imperfect indicative plural
- entonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- entonnai first-person historic indicative
- entonnas historic indicative past
- entonna historic indicative past
- entonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce entonner?
- /ɑ̃.tɔ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.tɔ.ne\
- [ɑ̃.tɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is entonner in French?
entonner appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).