épouser
French, verb/e.pu.ze/
épouser is spelled É-P-O-U-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 9.8 times per million words in written French, the 6,801st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Épouser is a French verb meaning “to marry, to wed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prendre en mariage”.
What does épouser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to marry, to wed
- 2
to marry, to get married, wed
- 3
to cling to, hug (of tight clothes etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Prendre en mariage. 2. S’adapter exactement à une forme donnée. 3. S’adapter exactement à une idée, à un projet. 4. Choisir de propos délibéré une chose et s’y attacher.
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 épouser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- épousant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- épousé participle past
- épouse first-person indicative present
- épouses indicative present second-person
- épousons first-person indicative plural
- épousez indicative plural present
- épousent indicative plural present
- épousais first-person imperfect indicative
- épousait imperfect indicative singular
- épousions first-person imperfect indicative
- épousiez imperfect indicative plural
- épousaient imperfect indicative plural
- épousai first-person historic indicative
- épousas historic indicative past
- épousa historic indicative past
- épousâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce épouser?
- /e.pu.ze/
- \e.pu.ze\
- [e.pu.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to épouser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is épouser in French?
épouser appears 9.8 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).