évoquer
French, verb/e.vɔ.ke/
évoquer is spelled É-V-O-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,293rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Évoquer is a French verb meaning “to evoke (to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appeler, faire venir, faire apparaître, en parlant surtout des âmes, des esprits”.
What does évoquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to evoke (to cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination)
- 2
to mention
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Appeler, faire venir, faire apparaître, en parlant surtout des âmes, des esprits. 2. Se rappeler au souvenir. 3. Faire une simple apostrophe oratoire, une prosopopée. 4. Remettre en mémoire ; rappeler une chose susceptible d'être oubliée.
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 évoquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- évoquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- évoqué participle past
- évoque first-person indicative present
- évoques indicative present second-person
- évoquons first-person indicative plural
- évoquez indicative plural present
- évoquent indicative plural present
- évoquais first-person imperfect indicative
- évoquait imperfect indicative singular
- évoquions first-person imperfect indicative
- évoquiez imperfect indicative plural
- évoquaient imperfect indicative plural
- évoquai first-person historic indicative
- évoquas historic indicative past
- évoqua historic indicative past
- évoquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce évoquer?
- /e.vɔ.ke/
- \e.vɔ.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to évoquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is évoquer in French?
évoquer appears 8.9 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).