manger
French, noun/mɑ̃.ʒe/
manger is spelled M-A-N-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears 105 times per million words in written French, the 787th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Manger is a French masculine noun meaning “food, foodstuff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qu’on mange, ce dont on se nourrit”.
What does manger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to eat
J'ai mangé de la viande à midi.
- 2
to eat
Il trouvait étrange que je ne mangeasse rien.
noun
- 1
masculinefood, foodstuff
Le manger est bon dans cette boulangerie.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mâcher et avaler un aliment dans le but de se nourrir. 2. Prendre un repas. 3. Consumer, dissiper en folles dépenses. 4. Consumer en absorbant, en rongeant, en minant, en détruisant d’autres choses, en parlant des choses.
noun: 1. Ce qu’on mange, ce dont on se nourrit. 2. Fait de se nourrir.
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 manger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mangeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mangé participle past
- mange first-person indicative present
- mɑ̃ʒ first-person indicative present
- manges indicative present second-person
- mangeons first-person indicative plural
- mangez indicative plural present
- mangent indicative plural present
- mangeais first-person imperfect indicative
- mangeait imperfect indicative singular
- mangions first-person imperfect indicative
- mangiez imperfect indicative plural
- mangeaient imperfect indicative plural
- mangeai first-person historic indicative
- mangeas historic indicative past
- mangea historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce manger?
- /mɑ̃.ʒe/
- [mɑ̃ː.ʒe]
- \mɑ̃.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to manger
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is manger in French?
manger appears 105 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).