harponner
French, verb/aʁ.pɔ.ne/
harponner is spelled H-A-R-P-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 104,709th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Harponner is a French verb meaning “to harpoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Darder ou accrocher avec le harpon”.
What does harponner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to harpoon
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Darder ou accrocher avec le harpon. 2. Attraper ; saisir.
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 harponner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- harponnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- harponné participle past
- harponne first-person indicative present
- harponnes indicative present second-person
- harponnons first-person indicative plural
- harponnez indicative plural present
- harponnent indicative plural present
- harponnais first-person imperfect indicative
- harponnait imperfect indicative singular
- harponnions first-person imperfect indicative
- harponniez imperfect indicative plural
- harponnaient imperfect indicative plural
- harponnai first-person historic indicative
- harponnas historic indicative past
- harponna historic indicative past
- harponnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce harponner?
- /aʁ.pɔ.ne/
- ^((h aspiré))\aʁ.pɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to harponner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is harponner in French?
harponner appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).