imposé
French, adjective
imposé is spelled I-M-P-O-S-É (6 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,569th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imposé is a French adjective meaning “which is subjected to taxes, taxed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of imposer. Without its accent, impose is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Soumis à l’impôt”.
What does imposé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
which is subjected to taxes, taxed
- 2
obligatory
verb
- 1
past participle of imposer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Soumis à l’impôt. 2. Obligatoire.
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 imposé
- imposée feminine
- imposés masculine plural
- imposées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is imposé in French?
imposé appears 32 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).