inaugurer
French, verb/i.no.ɡy.ʁe/
inaugurer is spelled I-N-A-U-G-U-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Inaugurer is a French verb meaning “to inaugurate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Consacrer par une cérémonie solennelle”.
What does inaugurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to inaugurate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Consacrer par une cérémonie solennelle. 2. Introniser. 3. Être l’origine ou le commencement d’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 inaugurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- inaugurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- inauguré participle past
- inaugure first-person indicative present
- inaugures indicative present second-person
- inaugurons first-person indicative plural
- inaugurez indicative plural present
- inaugurent indicative plural present
- inaugurais first-person imperfect indicative
- inaugurait imperfect indicative singular
- inaugurions first-person imperfect indicative
- inauguriez imperfect indicative plural
- inauguraient imperfect indicative plural
- inaugurai first-person historic indicative
- inauguras historic indicative past
- inaugura historic indicative past
- inaugurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce inaugurer?
- /i.no.ɡy.ʁe/
- \i.no.ɡy.ʁe\
- \i.nɔ.ɡy.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to inaugurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is inaugurer in French?
inaugurer appears 1.4 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).