environner
French, verb/ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/
environner is spelled E-N-V-I-R-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Environner is a French verb meaning “to surround, to encircle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entourer sur une large surface”.
What does environner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to surround, to encircle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entourer sur une large surface. 2. Être ou se mettre autour de quelqu’un, de quelque 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 environner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- environnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- environné participle past
- environne first-person indicative present
- environnes indicative present second-person
- environnons first-person indicative plural
- environnez indicative plural present
- environnent indicative plural present
- environnais first-person imperfect indicative
- environnait imperfect indicative singular
- environnions first-person imperfect indicative
- environniez imperfect indicative plural
- environnaient imperfect indicative plural
- environnai first-person historic indicative
- environnas historic indicative past
- environna historic indicative past
- environnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce environner?
- /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne/
- \ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne\
- [ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is environner in French?
environner appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).