fabriquer
French, verb/fa.bʁi.ke/
fabriquer is spelled F-A-B-R-I-Q-U-E-R (9 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,071st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fabriquer is a French verb meaning “to make; to build; to manufacture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exécuter ou faire exécuter certains ouvrages suivant les procédés d’un art mécanique, en atelier ou en usine”.
What does fabriquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make; to build; to manufacture
- 2
to fabricate
- 3
informalto be up to
Qu'est-ce que tu fabriques ?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exécuter ou faire exécuter certains ouvrages suivant les procédés d’un art mécanique, en atelier ou en usine. 2. Transformer manuellement des matières premières en objets utilisables. 3. Inventer 4. Ficher, foutre, faire, dans un sens moins emporté et plus poli.
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 fabriquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fabriquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fabriqué participle past
- fabrique first-person indicative present
- fabriques indicative present second-person
- fabriquons first-person indicative plural
- fabriquez indicative plural present
- fabriquent indicative plural present
- fabriquais first-person imperfect indicative
- fabriquait imperfect indicative singular
- fabriquions first-person imperfect indicative
- fabriquiez imperfect indicative plural
- fabriquaient imperfect indicative plural
- fabriquai first-person historic indicative
- fabriquas historic indicative past
- fabriqua historic indicative past
- fabriquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fabriquer?
- /fa.bʁi.ke/
- \fa.bʁi.ke\
- [fa.bʁi.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 fabriquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fabriquer in French?
fabriquer appears 11 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).