freiner
French, verb/fʁɛ.ne/
freiner is spelled F-R-E-I-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.4 times per million words in written French, the 14,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Freiner is a French verb meaning “to brake” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retenir, ralentir, arrêter à l’aide d’un frein”.
What does freiner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to brake
- 2
to put a stop on, to slow down the progress of
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retenir, ralentir, arrêter à l’aide d’un frein. 2. Ralentir dans son mouvement. 3. Se modérer. 4. transitif indirect Ralentir une consommation ou une pratique.
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 freiner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- freinant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- freiné participle past
- freine first-person indicative present
- freines indicative present second-person
- freinons first-person indicative plural
- freinez indicative plural present
- freinent indicative plural present
- freinais first-person imperfect indicative
- freinait imperfect indicative singular
- freinions first-person imperfect indicative
- freiniez imperfect indicative plural
- freinaient imperfect indicative plural
- freinai first-person historic indicative
- freinas historic indicative past
- freina historic indicative past
- freinâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce freiner?
- /fʁɛ.ne/
- /fʁe.ne/
- \fʁɛ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to freiner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is freiner in French?
freiner appears 3.4 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).