gonfler
French, verb/ɡɔ̃.fle/
gonfler is spelled G-O-N-F-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gonfler is a French verb meaning “to inflate, to blow up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Augmenter quelque chose de volume en la remplissant de gaz ou d’un fluide ; faire saillir”.
What does gonfler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inflate, to blow up
- 2
to swell, to puff up
- 3
informalto get on someone's nerves
Ça me gonfle.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Augmenter quelque chose de volume en la remplissant de gaz ou d’un fluide ; faire saillir. 2. Augmenter fortement et de manière anormale. 3. Remplir le cœur ou la poitrine d’un sentiment. 4. Agacer ; exaspérer.
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 gonfler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gonflant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gonflé participle past
- gonfle first-person indicative present
- gonfles indicative present second-person
- gonflons first-person indicative plural
- gonflez indicative plural present
- gonflent indicative plural present
- gonflais first-person imperfect indicative
- gonflait imperfect indicative singular
- gonflions first-person imperfect indicative
- gonfliez imperfect indicative plural
- gonflaient imperfect indicative plural
- gonflai first-person historic indicative
- gonflas historic indicative past
- gonfla historic indicative past
- gonflâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gonfler?
- /ɡɔ̃.fle/
- \ɡɔ̃.fle\
- [ɡɔ̃.fle]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gonfler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gonfler in French?
gonfler appears 3.7 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).