jeûner
French, verb
jeûner is spelled J-E-Û-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,186th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jeûner is a French verb meaning “to fast; to go without food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, jeuner is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of jeûner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manger peu, manger moins qu’il ne faut, ou même ne pas manger du tout, soit par une privation volontaire…”.
What does jeûner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fast; to go without food
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of jeûner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manger peu, manger moins qu’il ne faut, ou même ne pas manger du tout, soit par une privation volontaire, soit par une abstinence forcée et faute d’aliments. 2. S’abstenir ou être privé de certaines jouissances, etc. 3. S’abstenir d’aliments ou de certains aliments, par esprit de dévotion, de mortification.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de jeûner
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 jeûner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jeûnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jeûné participle past
- jeûne first-person indicative present
- jeûnes indicative present second-person
- jeûnons first-person indicative plural
- jeûnez indicative plural present
- jeûnent indicative plural present
- jeûnais first-person imperfect indicative
- jeûnait imperfect indicative singular
- jeûnions first-person imperfect indicative
- jeûniez imperfect indicative plural
- jeûnaient imperfect indicative plural
- jeûnai first-person historic indicative
- jeûnas historic indicative past
- jeûna historic indicative past
- jeûnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is jeûner in French?
jeûner 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).