imposer
French, verb/ɛ̃.po.ze/
imposer is spelled I-M-P-O-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written French, the 2,569th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imposer is a French verb meaning “to impose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre dessus”.
What does imposer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impose
- 2
to tax (a person, a product), or to impose (a tax)
Le régime s'est fait très impopulaire en imposant le vin.
- 3
to triumph, to win
Il s'est imposé vendredi devant Beat Feuz.
- 4
to establish oneself, to make a name for oneself
- 5
to be required, to be called for
Quelques précisions s'imposent.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre dessus. 2. Prescrire ou infliger à quelqu’un une chose incommode, pénible ou difficile. 3. Rendre obligatoire. 4. Forcer quelqu’un pour qu’il accueille une personne ou pour qu’il accepte une chose.
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 imposer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imposant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imposé participle past
- impose first-person indicative present
- imposes indicative present second-person
- imposons first-person indicative plural
- imposez indicative plural present
- imposent indicative plural present
- imposais first-person imperfect indicative
- imposait imperfect indicative singular
- imposions first-person imperfect indicative
- imposiez imperfect indicative plural
- imposaient imperfect indicative plural
- imposai first-person historic indicative
- imposas historic indicative past
- imposa historic indicative past
- imposâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imposer?
- /ɛ̃.po.ze/
- \ɛ̃.po.ze\
- [ɛ̃.po.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imposer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imposer in French?
imposer 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).