gronder
French, verb/ɡʁɔ̃.de/
gronder is spelled G-R-O-N-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 37,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gronder is a French verb meaning “to rumble, roar; to growl” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire entendre un bruit sourd, en parlant des animaux, ou des éléments”.
What does gronder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to rumble, roar; to growl
- 2
to tell off, scold, chew out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire entendre un bruit sourd, en parlant des animaux, ou des éléments. 2. Murmurer ; se plaindre ; grommeler. 3. Menacer ; exprimer des menaces. 4. Réprimander un enfant ou un employé.
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 gronder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- grondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- grondé participle past
- gronde first-person indicative present
- grondes indicative present second-person
- grondons first-person indicative plural
- grondez indicative plural present
- grondent indicative plural present
- grondais first-person imperfect indicative
- grondait imperfect indicative singular
- grondions first-person imperfect indicative
- grondiez imperfect indicative plural
- grondaient imperfect indicative plural
- grondai first-person historic indicative
- grondas historic indicative past
- gronda historic indicative past
- grondâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gronder?
- /ɡʁɔ̃.de/
- \ɡʁɔ̃.de\
- [ɡʁɔ̃.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 gronder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gronder in French?
gronder appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).