générer
French, verb/ʒe.ne.ʁe/
générer is spelled G-É-N-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written French, the 8,672nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Générer is a French verb meaning “to generate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “ou Donner corps à, engendrer, donner naissance à”.
What does générer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to generate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ou Donner corps à, engendrer, donner naissance à.
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 générer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- générant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- généré participle past
- génère first-person indicative present
- génères indicative present second-person
- générons first-person indicative plural
- générez indicative plural present
- génèrent indicative plural present
- générais first-person imperfect indicative
- générait imperfect indicative singular
- générions first-person imperfect indicative
- génériez imperfect indicative plural
- généraient imperfect indicative plural
- générai first-person historic indicative
- généras historic indicative past
- généra historic indicative past
- générâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce générer?
- /ʒe.ne.ʁe/
- \ʒe.ne.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to générer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is générer in French?
générer appears 7.1 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).