importer
French, verb/ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
importer is spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Importer is a French verb meaning “to import” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Apporter, introduire dans un pays des productions étrangères”.
What does importer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to import
- 2
to matter, to be relevant, to be important
En quoi cela m'importe-t-il ?
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Apporter, introduire dans un pays des productions étrangères. 2. Introduire, dans un pays ou une région, des coutumes, des savoir-faire, des idées, etc. venus d’ailleurs.
verb: 1. Être d’importance, de conséquence en parlant des choses.
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 importer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- important gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- importé participle past
- importe first-person indicative present
- importes indicative present second-person
- importons first-person indicative plural
- importez indicative plural present
- importent indicative plural present
- importais first-person imperfect indicative
- importait imperfect indicative singular
- importions first-person imperfect indicative
- importiez imperfect indicative plural
- importaient imperfect indicative plural
- importai first-person historic indicative
- importas historic indicative past
- importa historic indicative past
- importâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce importer?
- /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te/
- \ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te\
- [ɛ̃.pɔʁ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to importer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is importer in French?
importer appears 3.2 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).