impressionner
French, verb/ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ.ne/
impressionner is spelled I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N-N-E-R (13 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impressionner is a French verb meaning “to impress, to wow, to awe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire par photographie une impression sur une surface photosensible”.
What does impressionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to impress, to wow, to awe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire par photographie une impression sur une surface photosensible. 2. Causer des impressions ; émouvoir.
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 impressionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- impressionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- impressionné participle past
- impressionne first-person indicative present
- impressionnes indicative present second-person
- impressionnons first-person indicative plural
- impressionnez indicative plural present
- impressionnent indicative plural present
- impressionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- impressionnait imperfect indicative singular
- impressionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- impressionniez imperfect indicative plural
- impressionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- impressionnai first-person historic indicative
- impressionnas historic indicative past
- impressionna historic indicative past
- impressionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impressionner?
- /ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ.ne/
- \ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ.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 impressionner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impressionner in French?
impressionner appears 3.0 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).