imaginer
French, verb/i.ma.ʒi.ne/
imaginer is spelled I-M-A-G-I-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears 33 times per million words in written French, the 2,473rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imaginer is a French verb meaning “to imagine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit”.
What does imaginer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to imagine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit. 2. Inventer.
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 imaginer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imaginant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imaginé participle past
- imagine first-person indicative present
- imagines indicative present second-person
- imaginons first-person indicative plural
- imaginez indicative plural present
- imaginent indicative plural present
- imaginais first-person imperfect indicative
- imaginait imperfect indicative singular
- imaginions first-person imperfect indicative
- imaginiez imperfect indicative plural
- imaginaient imperfect indicative plural
- imaginai first-person historic indicative
- imaginas historic indicative past
- imagina historic indicative past
- imaginâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imaginer?
- /i.ma.ʒi.ne/
- \i.ma.ʒi.ne\
- [i.ma.ʒi.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 imaginer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imaginer in French?
imaginer appears 33 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).