maçonner
French, verb/ma.sɔ.ne/
maçonner is a French verb meaning “to face, render (a wall, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Revêtir de maçonnerie”.
What does maçonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to face, render (a wall, etc.)
- 2
to brick up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Revêtir de maçonnerie. 2. Boucher une ouverture dans une muraille avec de la maçonnerie.
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 maçonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- maçonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- maçonné participle past
- maçonne first-person indicative present
- maçonnes indicative present second-person
- maçonnons first-person indicative plural
- maçonnez indicative plural present
- maçonnent indicative plural present
- maçonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- maçonnait imperfect indicative singular
- maçonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- maçonniez imperfect indicative plural
- maçonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- maçonnai first-person historic indicative
- maçonnas historic indicative past
- maçonna historic indicative past
- maçonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maçonner?
- /ma.sɔ.ne/
- \ma.sɔ.ne\
- [ma.sɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maçonner in French?
maçonner appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).