grogner
French, verb/ɡʁɔ.ɲe/
grogner is spelled G-R-O-G-N-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 56,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Grogner is a French verb meaning “to grunt (for a pig, make the sound of a pig)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entendre son cri, pour le cochon, le loup ou le chien”.
What does grogner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grunt (for a pig, make the sound of a pig)
- 2
to grunt (for a person, to make a snorting sound e.g. of disapproval)
- 3
to growl, to snarl (for an animal, to make a growling or snarling sound)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entendre son cri, pour le cochon, le loup ou le chien. 2. Murmurer, témoigner par un bruit sourd, entre ses dents, que l’on est mécontent. 3. Dire quelque chose sur un ton qui ressemble à un grognement. 4. Faire le même bruit qu’un grognement.
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 grogner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grognant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grogné participle past
- grogne first-person indicative present
- grognes indicative present second-person
- grognons first-person indicative plural
- grognez indicative plural present
- grognent indicative plural present
- grognais first-person imperfect indicative
- grognait imperfect indicative singular
- grognions first-person imperfect indicative
- grogniez imperfect indicative plural
- grognaient imperfect indicative plural
- grognai first-person historic indicative
- grognas historic indicative past
- grogna historic indicative past
- grognâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce grogner?
- /ɡʁɔ.ɲe/
- \ɡʁɔ.ɲe\
- [ɡʁɔ.ɲe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to grogner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is grogner in French?
grogner appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).