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genrer

French, verb/ʒɑ̃.ʁe/

genrer is spelled G-E-N-R-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Genrer is a French verb meaning “to gender (to assign a gender to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Attribuer un genre à”.

What does genrer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to gender (to assign a gender to)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Attribuer un genre à. 2. Utiliser un genre grammatical donné (masculin, féminin ou neutre) en parlant d'une personne ou en s’adressant à elle.

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 genrer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • genrant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • genré participle past
  • genre first-person indicative present
  • genres indicative present second-person
  • genrons first-person indicative plural
  • genrez indicative plural present
  • genrent indicative plural present
  • genrais first-person imperfect indicative
  • genrait imperfect indicative singular
  • genrions first-person imperfect indicative
  • genriez imperfect indicative plural
  • genraient imperfect indicative plural
  • genrai first-person historic indicative
  • genras historic indicative past
  • genra historic indicative past
  • genrâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce genrer?

  • /ʒɑ̃.ʁe/
  • \ʒɑ̃.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 genrer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is genrer in French?

genrer appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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