galer
French, verb/ɡa.le/
galer is a French verb meaning “to scratch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se gratter”.
What does galer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scratch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se gratter. 2. Battre, égratigner. 3. Formation d’une gale, d’une croûte, sur une blessure.
verb: 1. Porter (le sel) dans un magasin pour le faire sécher.
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 galer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- galant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- galé participle past
- gale first-person indicative present
- gales indicative present second-person
- galons first-person indicative plural
- galez indicative plural present
- galent indicative plural present
- galais first-person imperfect indicative
- galait imperfect indicative singular
- galions first-person imperfect indicative
- galiez imperfect indicative plural
- galaient imperfect indicative plural
- galai first-person historic indicative
- galas historic indicative past
- gala historic indicative past
- galâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce galer?
- /ɡa.le/
- \ɡa.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is galer in French?
galer appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).