garder
French, verb/ɡaʁ.de/
garder is spelled G-A-R-D-E-R (6 letters) and appears 76 times per million words in written French, the 1,112th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garder is a French verb meaning “to keep; to retain; to store; to save” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Veiller ou surveiller étroitement”.
What does garder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to keep; to retain; to store; to save
garder les yeux ouverts
- 2
to guard
Ils gardent le bâtiment.
- 3
to be careful (de faire not to do)
Il se garde de dire n'importe quoi.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Veiller ou surveiller étroitement. 2. Préserver de toute atteinte, de tout danger. 3. Entre fiancés, s’abstenir de toutes relations à caractère sexuel avant le mariage. 4. Retenir en sa possession.
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 garder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gardé participle past
- garde first-person indicative present
- gardes indicative present second-person
- gardons first-person indicative plural
- gardez indicative plural present
- gardent indicative plural present
- gardais first-person imperfect indicative
- gardait imperfect indicative singular
- gardions first-person imperfect indicative
- gardiez imperfect indicative plural
- gardaient imperfect indicative plural
- gardai first-person historic indicative
- gardas historic indicative past
- garda historic indicative past
- gardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce garder?
- /ɡaʁ.de/
- \ɡaʁ.de\
- [ɡaʁ.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 garder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garder in French?
garder appears 76 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).