imprégner
French, verb/ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/
imprégner is spelled I-M-P-R-É-G-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,599th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imprégner is a French verb meaning “to impregnate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Féconder ; rendre prégnant”.
What does imprégner mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto impregnate
- 2
to imbue
- 3
to soak up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Féconder ; rendre prégnant. 2. Faire que les particules d’une substance se répandent dans un corps solide ou fluide. 3. Faire que des opinions, des principes, etc., soient inculqués dans l’esprit. 4. Instauration d’un lien privilégié entre un homme et un animal et l’entraîner à avoir des comportements, individuels ou collectifs, les plus naturels ou véridiques possible pour les besoins du cinéma.
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 imprégner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imprégnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imprégné participle past
- imprègne first-person indicative present
- imprègnes indicative present second-person
- imprégnons first-person indicative plural
- imprégnez indicative plural present
- imprègnent indicative plural present
- imprégnais first-person imperfect indicative
- imprégnait imperfect indicative singular
- imprégnions first-person imperfect indicative
- imprégniez imperfect indicative plural
- imprégnaient imperfect indicative plural
- imprégnai first-person historic indicative
- imprégnas historic indicative past
- imprégna historic indicative past
- imprégnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imprégner?
- /ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe/
- \ɛ̃.pʁe.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imprégner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imprégner in French?
imprégner appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).