imprimer
French, verb/ɛ̃.pʁi.me/
imprimer is spelled I-M-P-R-I-M-E-R (8 letters) and appears 8.5 times per million words in written French, the 7,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Imprimer is a French verb meaning “to print, to print out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure”.
What does imprimer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to print, to print out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire ou laisser une empreinte sur quelque chose, y marquer des traits, une figure. 2. Reproduire à l’encre noire ou en couleur par l’application et la pression d’une surface sur une autre. 3. Reproduire par des lettres sur du papier ou sur une autre surface, avec des caractères que l’on a chargés d’encre. 4. Reproduire automatiquement de l’information à partir d’un ordinateur par l’intermédiaire d'une imprimante.
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 imprimer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- imprimant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- imprimé participle past
- imprime first-person indicative present
- imprimes indicative present second-person
- imprimons first-person indicative plural
- imprimez indicative plural present
- impriment indicative plural present
- imprimais first-person imperfect indicative
- imprimait imperfect indicative singular
- imprimions first-person imperfect indicative
- imprimiez imperfect indicative plural
- imprimaient imperfect indicative plural
- imprimai first-person historic indicative
- imprimas historic indicative past
- imprima historic indicative past
- imprimâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce imprimer?
- /ɛ̃.pʁi.me/
- \ɛ̃.pʁi.me\
- [ɛ̃.pʁi.me]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to imprimer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is imprimer in French?
imprimer appears 8.5 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).