malmener
French, verb/mal.mə.ne/
malmener is spelled M-A-L-M-E-N-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,397th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malmener is a French verb meaning “to mistreat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Maltraiter en paroles, en actions”.
What does malmener mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mistreat
- 2
to misuse, use incorrectly
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Maltraiter en paroles, en actions. 2. Faire essuyer à quelqu’un un grand échec, une grande perte. 3. Faire subir un préjudice.
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 malmener
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- malmenant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- malmené participle past
- malmène first-person indicative present
- malmènes indicative present second-person
- malmenons first-person indicative plural
- malmenez indicative plural present
- malmènent indicative plural present
- malmenais first-person imperfect indicative
- malmenait imperfect indicative singular
- malmenions first-person imperfect indicative
- malmeniez imperfect indicative plural
- malmenaient imperfect indicative plural
- malmenai first-person historic indicative
- malmenas historic indicative past
- malmena historic indicative past
- malmenâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malmener?
- /mal.mə.ne/
- \mal.mə.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malmener
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malmener in French?
malmener 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).