ligner
French, verb/li.ɲe/
ligner is spelled L-I-G-N-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 33 million words in written French, the 184,024th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ligner is a French verb meaning “to line, make a line (mark with a line)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tracer une ligne, tracer des lignes parallèles sur une surface”.
What does ligner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to line, make a line (mark with a line)
- 2
to line (add lines to a surface)
- 3
rareto fold up (a sail)
- 4
to fish with a line
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tracer une ligne, tracer des lignes parallèles sur une surface. 2. Tracer une ligne droite avec un cordeau frotté de craie. 3. Disposer une voile, pli par pli, sur un de ses côtés, afin de la serrer convenablement. 4. Couvrir, en parlant du loup qui couvre la louve.
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 ligner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lignant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ligné participle past
- ligne first-person indicative present
- lignes indicative present second-person
- lignons first-person indicative plural
- lignez indicative plural present
- lignent indicative plural present
- lignais first-person imperfect indicative
- lignait imperfect indicative singular
- lignions first-person imperfect indicative
- ligniez imperfect indicative plural
- lignaient imperfect indicative plural
- lignai first-person historic indicative
- lignas historic indicative past
- ligna historic indicative past
- lignâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ligner?
- /li.ɲe/
- \li.ɲe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ligner in French?
ligner appears about once in every 33 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).