fermenter
French, verb/fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/
fermenter is spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,169th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fermenter is a French verb meaning “to ferment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être en fermentation”.
What does fermenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ferment
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être en fermentation. 2. S’agiter ou bouillonner, en parlant des esprits, des passions dangereuses.
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 fermenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fermentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fermenté participle past
- fermente first-person indicative present
- fermentes indicative present second-person
- fermentons first-person indicative plural
- fermentez indicative plural present
- fermentent indicative plural present
- fermentais first-person imperfect indicative
- fermentait imperfect indicative singular
- fermentions first-person imperfect indicative
- fermentiez imperfect indicative plural
- fermentaient imperfect indicative plural
- fermentai first-person historic indicative
- fermentas historic indicative past
- fermenta historic indicative past
- fermentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fermenter?
- /fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te/
- \fɛʁ.mɑ̃.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fermenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fermenter in French?
fermenter appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).