libérer
French, verb/li.be.ʁe/
libérer is spelled L-I-B-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Libérer is a French verb meaning “to liberate, to set free, to release from captivity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre libre une personne ou un objet qui est détenu par une loi ou une personne”.
What does libérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to liberate, to set free, to release from captivity
- 2
to vacate, to move out of (e.g. a house)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre libre une personne ou un objet qui est détenu par une loi ou une personne. 2. Relâcher quelqu’un détenu contre son gré. 3. Retirer un territoire et sa population de l’emprise d’autrui. 4. Faire de l’espace dans ou autour d’un objet, sur une surface ou dans un espace déterminé.
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 libérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- libérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- libéré participle past
- libère first-person indicative present
- libères indicative present second-person
- libérons first-person indicative plural
- libérez indicative plural present
- libèrent indicative plural present
- libérais first-person imperfect indicative
- libérait imperfect indicative singular
- libérions first-person imperfect indicative
- libériez imperfect indicative plural
- libéraient imperfect indicative plural
- libérai first-person historic indicative
- libéras historic indicative past
- libéra historic indicative past
- libérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce libérer?
- /li.be.ʁe/
- \li.be.ʁe\
- [li.be.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 libérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is libérer in French?
libérer appears 17 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).