interdire
French, verb/ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ/
interdire is spelled I-N-T-E-R-D-I-R-E (9 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,658th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interdire is a French verb meaning “to forbid, ban, prohibit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Défendre quelque chose à quelqu’un, ne pas lui permettre par une décision d'autorité”.
What does interdire mean in English?
verb
- 1
to forbid, ban, prohibit
- 2
to interdict
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Défendre quelque chose à quelqu’un, ne pas lui permettre par une décision d'autorité. 2. Défendre à un ecclésiastique l’exercice des ordres sacrés, ou à tout ecclésiastique la célébration des sacrements et du service divin dans les lieux marqués par la sentence. 3. Défendre à quelqu’un, temporairement ou pour toujours, de continuer l’exercice de ses fonctions. 4. Ôter à quelqu’un la libre disposition de ses biens, et même de sa personne.
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 interdire
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- interdisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- interdit participle past
- interdis first-person indicative present
- interdisons first-person indicative plural
- interdisez indicative plural present
- interdisent indicative plural present
- interdisais first-person imperfect indicative
- interdisait imperfect indicative singular
- interdisions first-person imperfect indicative
- interdisiez imperfect indicative plural
- interdisaient imperfect indicative plural
- interdîmes first-person historic indicative
- interdîtes historic indicative past
- interdirent historic indicative past
- interdirai first-person future indicative
- interdiras future indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce interdire?
- /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ/
- \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ\
- [ɛ̃.tɛʁ.diʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to interdire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is interdire in French?
interdire appears 16 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).