fréquenter
French, verb/fʁe.kɑ̃.te/
fréquenter is spelled F-R-É-Q-U-E-N-T-E-R (10 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written French, the 12,326th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fréquenter is a French verb meaning “to frequent, to go to (a place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller fréquemment dans un lieu”.
What does fréquenter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frequent, to go to (a place)
Il ne fréquente plus les bars.
- 2
to socialise with (people)
Je fréquente mes amis.
- 3
datedto flirt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller fréquemment dans un lieu. 2. Hanter ; avoir un commerce habituel ou des relations suivies ; voir souvent. 3. Avoir des relations sentimentales ou amoureuses. 4. Aller à l’école.
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 fréquenter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fréquentant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fréquenté participle past
- fréquente first-person indicative present
- fréquentes indicative present second-person
- fréquentons first-person indicative plural
- fréquentez indicative plural present
- fréquentent indicative plural present
- fréquentais first-person imperfect indicative
- fréquentait imperfect indicative singular
- fréquentions first-person imperfect indicative
- fréquentiez imperfect indicative plural
- fréquentaient imperfect indicative plural
- fréquentai first-person historic indicative
- fréquentas historic indicative past
- fréquenta historic indicative past
- fréquentâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fréquenter?
- /fʁe.kɑ̃.te/
- \fʁe.kɑ̃.te\
- [fʁe.kɑ̃.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 fréquenter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fréquenter in French?
fréquenter appears 4.4 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).