frémir
French, verb/fʁe.miʁ/
frémir is spelled F-R-É-M-I-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frémir is a French verb meaning “to quiver; to shiver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entendre une succession de petits bruits, de tremblements”.
What does frémir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to quiver; to shiver
- 2
to simmer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entendre une succession de petits bruits, de tremblements. 2. En parlant d’un liquide, être presque en ébullition, et produire un son léger. 3. Faire entendre des vibrations. 4. Être pris d’une sorte de tremblement causé par la surprise, la peur, le froid.
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 frémir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- frémissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- frémi participle past
- frémis first-person indicative present
- frémit indicative present singular
- frémissons first-person indicative plural
- frémissez indicative plural present
- frémissent indicative plural present
- frémissais first-person imperfect indicative
- frémissait imperfect indicative singular
- frémissions first-person imperfect indicative
- frémissiez imperfect indicative plural
- frémissaient imperfect indicative plural
- frémîmes first-person historic indicative
- frémîtes historic indicative past
- frémirent historic indicative past
- frémirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frémir?
- /fʁe.miʁ/
- \fʁe.miʁ\
- [fʁe.miʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frémir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frémir in French?
frémir appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).