ingérer
French, verb/ɛ̃.ʒe.ʁe/
ingérer is spelled I-N-G-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ingérer is a French verb meaning “to ingest, to swallow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Introduire une substance dans le corps”.
What does ingérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ingest, to swallow
- 2
to interfere in, to meddle with
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Introduire une substance dans le corps. 2. Se mêler de quelque chose sans en avoir le droit, l’autorisation, ou sans en être requis.
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 ingérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ingérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ingéré participle past
- ingère first-person indicative present
- ingères indicative present second-person
- ingérons first-person indicative plural
- ingérez indicative plural present
- ingèrent indicative plural present
- ingérais first-person imperfect indicative
- ingérait imperfect indicative singular
- ingérions first-person imperfect indicative
- ingériez imperfect indicative plural
- ingéraient imperfect indicative plural
- ingérai first-person historic indicative
- ingéras historic indicative past
- ingéra historic indicative past
- ingérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ingérer?
- /ɛ̃.ʒe.ʁe/
- \ɛ̃.ʒe.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 ingérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ingérer in French?
ingérer 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).