interner
French, verb/ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ne/
interner is spelled I-N-T-E-R-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Interner is a French verb meaning “to intern, to imprison” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Obliger à résider dans une certaine localité, sans permission d’en sortir”.
What does interner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to intern, to imprison
- 2
to section (in a psychiatric ward)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Obliger à résider dans une certaine localité, sans permission d’en sortir. 2. Enfermer dans un asile d’aliénés. 3. Pour un élève, être logé dans un établissement scolaire en tant qu'interne, y être pensionnaire.
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 interner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- internant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- interné participle past
- interne first-person indicative present
- internes indicative present second-person
- internons first-person indicative plural
- internez indicative plural present
- internent indicative plural present
- internais first-person imperfect indicative
- internait imperfect indicative singular
- internions first-person imperfect indicative
- interniez imperfect indicative plural
- internaient imperfect indicative plural
- internai first-person historic indicative
- internas historic indicative past
- interna historic indicative past
- internâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce interner?
- /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ne/
- \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.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 interner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is interner in French?
interner appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).