gambader
French, verb/ɡɑ̃.ba.de/
gambader is spelled G-A-M-B-A-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 63,613th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gambader is a French verb meaning “to frolic, gambol, caper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des gambades”.
What does gambader mean in English?
verb
- 1
to frolic, gambol, caper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des gambades. 2. Folâtrer.
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 gambader
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gambadant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gambadé participle past
- gambade first-person indicative present
- gambades indicative present second-person
- gambadons first-person indicative plural
- gambadez indicative plural present
- gambadent indicative plural present
- gambadais first-person imperfect indicative
- gambadait imperfect indicative singular
- gambadions first-person imperfect indicative
- gambadiez imperfect indicative plural
- gambadaient imperfect indicative plural
- gambadai first-person historic indicative
- gambadas historic indicative past
- gambada historic indicative past
- gambadâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gambader?
- /ɡɑ̃.ba.de/
- \ɡɑ̃.ba.de\
- [gɑ̃.ba.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gambader
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gambader in French?
gambader appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).