farder
French, verb/faʁ.de/
farder is spelled F-A-R-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Farder is a French verb meaning “to disguise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enduire de fard”.
What does farder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disguise
- 2
to make up or paint (the face)
- 3
to represent in a false light; to augment with falsehoods or affectations
verb
- 1
to weigh heavily; to be burdensome
- 2
to settle or sink downwards
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enduire de fard. 2. Parer une chose d’un faux lustre. 3. Déguiser par un artifice de paroles ce qui peut déplaire à celui à qui l’on parle, le choquer, ou nuire à celui qui parle. 4. Parer d’ornements faux ou affectés, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
verb: 1. Peser de tout son poids. 2. Pencher sur. 3. S’affaisser.
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 farder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fardé participle past
- farde first-person indicative present
- fardes indicative present second-person
- fardons first-person indicative plural
- fardez indicative plural present
- fardent indicative plural present
- fardais first-person imperfect indicative
- fardait imperfect indicative singular
- fardions first-person imperfect indicative
- fardiez imperfect indicative plural
- fardaient imperfect indicative plural
- fardai first-person historic indicative
- fardas historic indicative past
- farda historic indicative past
- fardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce farder?
- /faʁ.de/
- \faʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is farder in French?
farder appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).