léguer
French, verb/le.ɡe/
léguer is spelled L-É-G-U-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Léguer is a French verb meaning “to will, to bequeath” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté”.
What does léguer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to will, to bequeath
- 2
to hand down, pass on (traditions etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner par testament ou par autre acte de dernière volonté. 2. Transmettre.
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 léguer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- léguant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- légué participle past
- lègue first-person indicative present
- lègues indicative present second-person
- léguons first-person indicative plural
- léguez indicative plural present
- lèguent indicative plural present
- léguais first-person imperfect indicative
- léguait imperfect indicative singular
- léguions first-person imperfect indicative
- léguiez imperfect indicative plural
- léguaient imperfect indicative plural
- léguai first-person historic indicative
- léguas historic indicative past
- légua historic indicative past
- léguâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce léguer?
- /le.ɡe/
- \le.ɡe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to léguer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is léguer in French?
léguer 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).